The Child Care Enhancement Project (CCEP) is creating measurable changes in children’s readiness for school by making improvements in child care programs. CCEP is expected to create positive changes in:
- the functioning of child care programs and staff’s ability to work with children; and
- the school readiness of individual children in cognition and language, physical/motor, self-confidence, and social/emotional development.
The Hartford Area Child Care Collaborative partners with the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (HFPG) to coordinate many of the activities of the project and advocates for statewide policy based on the results of this project. The Collaborative also partners with Teaching Strategies, Inc. to deliver three years of training and technical assistance on The Creative Curriculum(R) and its assessment processes.
In January 2003, HFPG, through it’s Brighter Futures Initiative, launched a three-year, $2.3 million project to provide essential support to strengthen the quality and capacity of 14 community-based child care programs in Hartford. A targeted focus on the enhancement of quality in child care complements the major role currently played by the public sector in providing general operating support to community-based child care programs in Hartford that serve low-income youngsters. These child care programs serve approximately 1,000 children, ages eight weeks to five years of age, and employ approximately 250 early childhood professionals.
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