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Referral Services
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Adults
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General Public/Unspecified
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CCI‘s parent referral service supports families in the complex task of finding and choosing child care. Our comprehensive data base of over 10,000 programs and providers is a resource to parents and to the community.
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CCI’s Parent Referral Service assists over 5,000 parents in New York City each year to effectively navigate the complexities of finding and choosing good early care and education arrangements for their children
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Edcational Opportunities
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Education
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Adults
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CCI provides a broad mix of educational opportunities, on site consultation, mentoring and coaching. We are a resource to anyone seeking to launch or expand an early childhood program and can answer questions on all aspects of program start up from site selection to regulations and funding.
CCI offers many opportunities for professionals to work toward quality improvement.
CCI’s training includes individualized workshops, mini forums, and multi session series all designed to meet the specific needs of practitioners in the field.
CCI assists programs in meeting NAEYC national accreditation standards. The Business Resource Center offers mentoring, business development and child development support to family child care providers to assist them in building and stabilizing their home businesses. Talk Reach & Read, a specially designed early literacy initiative, offers training and mentoring as well as providing books for children to promote early language development through reading and story telling. Through our Health Initiatives, we address issues such as Nutrition education, health and safety practices, and administering medication in early childhood settings.
The Infant Toddler Services Center coordinates working collaboratively with four linguistically and culturally diverse organizations to offer systemic supports to infant toddler programs to improve and sustain quality. We are a resource as well for professional development for programs providing after school services.
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The New York City Infant Toddler Resource Center, has specially trained infant toddler specialists who offer training, consultation, and mentoring to improve the quality of infant toddler services. CCI leads a partnership of four other organizations offering services in Spanish, Chinese and Haitian Creole. It serves It is a resource to the field of early child care professionals and builds bridges and connections between child care, health, social services and early intervention to improve opportunities for young children. Each year, the Center works intensively with 25 selected Infant Toddler programs in addition to its general training and technical assistance activities for child care providers.
Quality New York (QNY) is a nationally recognized effort by a partnership including CCI and other select agencies to promote quality improvement through a national accreditation system. QNY combines assessment, intensive mentoring, staff development and training to assist early child care programs through the arduous accreditation processes. The project has tripled the number of accredited programs in the City since its inception. To date, 87 programs have achieved national accreditation and an additional 70 programs are in the process of moving toward accreditation.
CCI’s Talk, Reach, Read (TRR) program promotes early literacy for children six weeks to five years of age. The research-based program assists adults in promoting the development of early literacy capabilities and enhancing the skills of both caregivers and parents. TRR builds confidence for providers in how to read to children and fully use this interaction as an opportunity to encourage early language skills. CCI annually trains 350 childcare providers in the TRR approach and offers advanced training in early literacy development to 700 child care providers who received the initial TRR training.
CCI’s Family Child Care Entrepreneurship Program assists individuals who are entering the field as family child care providers to meet regulatory standards and learn the basics of running a quality program with good business management practices. Providers receive support in developing a business plan, record keeping, and tax planning and community resource development. The program is currently working with 40 providers each year to stabilize their business and meet regulatory standards.
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Policy
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Public, Society Benefit
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Infants/Babies (under age 5)
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CCI’s program and policy work is informed by a vision of early care and education as a comprehensive system of service options, delivered in diverse settings and creating high-quality early learning experiences with supports for families starting from birth
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CCI’s Advocacy Efforts to promote investment in early childhood services. The CCI Primer: Key Facts about EarlyCare and Education in New York City, quarterly “Action for Early Learning” bulletin and policy briefs educate elected officials and others with the objective of promoting effective investments in early learning including prek child care and Headstart. CCI works locally, at the State level and nationally as a leading voice in building strong support for early care and education.
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