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Great Beginnings Quality Child Care Project, Final Report (PDF)
By Pam Deardorff, Gary Glasenapp, Debbie Kenyon, Mandy Stanley
August
2007
Summary: This report presents an overview of the Great Beginnings Quality Child Care Project in Oregon. This early childhood initiative is designed to prepare children to succeed in pre-K and kindergarten by helping them, as infants and toddlers, form healthy attachments, develop positive peer relationships, experience and regulate emotions, and safely explore their environment. Great Beginnings intends to strengthen the infrastructure in Marion County so that all children develop the social, emotional, and self-regulatory capacity needed to be ready to learn. The experiences that young children have in their earliest years are critical to healthy development and later school success. The environment provided by the child’s first caregivers has profound effects on virtually every facet of early development. Child care providers support parents in setting the foundation of three protective factors: (1) the learning of empathy or emotional attachment of others; (2) the opportunity to learn control and balance feelings, especially those that can be destructive; and (3) the opportunity to develop capacities for higher levels of cognitive processing.
Index Terms: Outcomes, Quality Of Child Care, State Initiatives, Statewide Systems, System Building, Data Collection, Evaluation Instruments, Research Reports, Oregon
Publisher: Teaching Research Institute
Sponsoring Institution (or Funding Source): Marion County Early Childhood Consortium and the Marion County Children and Families Commission
Publication Type: Reports (Research/technical)
Pages: 152 pages
Language: English
URL: http://www.mwvcaa.org/ccis/Final%20Report%20-%20complete.pdf
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