The Association for Supportive Child Care Play & Learn Pilot Program Evaluation Report

Play & Learn initiatives aim to prepare young children for school by helping caregivers understand how children learn through play. Children use activity centers that are designed to provide opportunities for their cognitive, language, and physical development, and enhance their social- emotional development through interactions with their caregivers. Program staff facilitate caregivers’ learning about children’s development by modeling activities, describing the domains that the activities are intended to support, and explaining how the activities in the center support development. The current Play & Learn model developed and implemented by the Association for Supportive Child Care is an exploration of bridging the gap that is often seen in programs that either focus on professional development strategies using an early care and education framework or family support strategies.

Our aim in conducting this small, pilot evaluation is not only to inform and improve future delivery at the Association for Supportive Child Care, but to inform the larger evaluation agenda for the agency as a whole.

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