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Appendices Program Descriptions |
The programs listed below were identified by Leadership Forum participants as examples of inclusion in action. Many of these programs are cited as examples within the text of this Monograph.
Participants were asked to identify programs that meet some or all of the following criteria:
ABC Child Care Voucher System For Children With Special Needs
SCUAP/University
of South Carolina
School of Medicine
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone:
(803) 935-5238
Fax: (803) 935-5250
Contact: Gay Clement-Atkinson, Ph.D.,
Training Director, SCUAP
ABC Child Care Voucher System provides training, technical assistance, and consultation to families, child care providers, service providers and educators to ensure the delivery of services to children, birth through 18 years, who have special needs.
BANANAS (see also ADD's Projects of National Significance)
Child
Care Inclusion Project
5232 Claremont Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
Phone:
(510) 658-7101
Fax: (510) 658-8354
Contact: Ginger Barnhart, Inclusion
Specialist
BANANAS, the Child Care Resource and Referral Agency for Northern Alameda County, serves families of children of all ages who need child care or related services. BANANAS has a long history of working with and assisting families of children with special needs. The Child Care Inclusion Project is a collaboration of BANANAS, the Family Resource Network, and the Child Care Law Center to establish inclusion as a standard for quality child care.
Best Practices in Integration-Outreach
Indiana University
W.W.
Wright Education Building
201 North Rose
Bloomington, IN 47405-1006
Phone:
(812) 856-8167
Fax: (812) 866-8440
Contact: Susan Klein
Best Practices in Integration is an in-service training model for providers who serve infants, toddlers, and preschool children with special needs in community-based early childhood settings. The key components include training and technical assistance to ensure inclusion of young children with special needs in programs, and collaboration between early childhood educators and early childhood intervention specialists.
Champaign County Early Childhood Program
Lawnview Child and
Family Center
2200 South State Route 68
P.O. Box 38205
Urbana, OH
43078
Phone: (513) 653-5214
Fax: (513) 653-5886
Contact: Karen
McCoy, Program Director
Champaign County Early Childhood Program serves children from diverse backgrounds and with differing abilities. Several agencies and organizations, including Head Start and Champaign County Public Schools, are directly involved in the program's development, support services, and operation.
Charles County Public Schools
5980 Radio Station Road
La
Plata, MD 20646
Phone: (301) 870-3814
Contact: Cindy Bryant, Director of
Early Childhood and Special Education
The Charles County Public Schools provides inclusive wrap-around child care services for enrolled preschool and kindergarten children.
Child Care Education Program
University of North Carolina -
Greensboro
310 McIver Street
Greensboro, NC 27412
Phone: (910)
334-5810
Fax: (910) 334-5910
Contact: Barbara Taylor, Coordinator
Child Care Education Program is an inclusive lab school in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, that serves children, age one year until entry into kindergarten. The lab school is an approved research site and serves as a practicum site for students working toward a state Birth through K teaching certificate.
Child Care Plus
10201 Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone:
(703) 5917265
Fax: (703) 591-7286
Contact: Marshann Snyder, Coordinator
Child Care Plus is a four-year project, coordinated by the Fairfax County Department of Family Services, Office for Children, with funding from the Maternal Child and Health Bureau. The project develops and expands child care services for children with special health care needs, and facilitates community collaboration with special education and family support organizations. Training, technical assistance, and resource materials are available to child care providers.
Child Care plus+
Rural Institute on Disabilities
The
University of Montana
52 Corbin Hall
Missoula, MT 59812
Phone:
(800) 235-4122; (406) 243-5467 (Voice/TTY)
Fax: (406) 243-4730
Contact:
Sarah A. Mulligan Gordon, Project Director
Publications:
Integrated
Child Care: Meeting the Challenge
Child Care plus+ Newsletter:
Supporting Inclusion in Early Childhood Settings
Child Care plus+ provides support and resources to child care providers in a variety of settings, special educators, therapists, and early intervention specialists, to ensure successful inclusion of young children with disabilities in early childhood programs. Child Care plus+ offers training workshops, technical assistance, and in-service training and has produced curriculum materials, fact sheets, and annotated resource lists.
Child Care 2000
Massachusetts Office For Children
One
Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 727-8900 Ext.110
Fax:
(617) 727-0528
Contact: Margaret C. O'Hare, Project Director
Through two demonstration projects, Child Care 2000 has developed a model system to refer families of children with disabilities to child care providers who are able to administer medication, provide site modification, access special equipment, and make other accommodations to meet individual child needs. Capitalizing on a strong statewide child care resource and referral system, the project supports families in their search for appropriate child care while at the same time supporting service providers by identifying professionals who can provide training and technical assistance to help them improve the quality of special care they provide. Services will include a strong focus on developing a team approach among all those working with the child.
Child Development Resources
P.O. Box 280
Norge, VA
23127-0280
Phone: (804) 566-3300
Fax: (804) 566-8977
Contact:
Corinne W. Garland, Executive Director
Publications: SpecialCare
Curriculum and Trainer's Manual
Child Development Resources provides early intervention services to young children and their families, and training and technical assistance to early intervention and early childhood professionals. The agency has an infant-parent program in which many of the children have complex health impairments, an evaluation and therapy center, and a child care center.
Children's Playspace
123 North Ashley Street, Suite 110
Ann
Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: (313) 995-2688
Fax: (313) 995-0606
Contact:
Mary Wehking, Director
Children's Playspace serves children (eight weeks through six years) in an inclusive child care setting. A teacher consultant from the Intermediate or local school district works with parents and staff to meet the special needs of individual children.
Childtime Children's Centers
Education and Training
38345
West Ten Mile Road, Suite 100
Farmington Hills, MI 48335-2883
Phone:
(810) 476-3200
Fax: (810) 476-1168
Contact: Lana Smith, Education and
Training Director
Childtime operates 180 centers (infants to school-age) in fourteen states and the District of Columbia. Children with special needs are integrated into the regular group care program. Training for monitoring or intervention procedures (e.g., sign language) is usually provided by parents and supplemented by a staff member. Center directors assist parents in navigating state requirements for obtaining evaluative and support services and in working with the school system to develop an Individualized Education Plan.
Community Partnerships, Inc.
3522 Haworth Drive
Raleigh, NC
27511
Phone: (919) 781-3616
Fax: (919) 782-1485
Contact: Kelli
Rushing
Community Partnerships, Inc. has developed a number of specialized programs to support efforts to develop inclusive programs throughout the Raleigh, North Carolina region. These programs include the Integrated Preschool Services project to provide early intervention services in regular child care and preschool settings for children at risk for developmental disabilities, and the Inclusion Resource Project to provide training and technical assistance to community child care programs who enroll or are interested in enrolling children with disabilities.
Danny Chitwood Early Learning Institute
2210 Mount Vernon
Avenue, Suite 202
Alexandria, VA 22301
Phone: (703) 683-1774
Fax:
(703) 683-1793
Contact: Mary Ellen Hoy, Ph.D., Director
Publications:
Family Child Care Integration Project: Implementation Manual
The Danny Chitwood Early Learning Institute strives to improve the quality of early childhood programs for children, birth to five years, with particular emphasis on children with special needs or those who are at risk for school failure. The Institute developed the Family Child Care Integration Project, an in-service training project to train and support family child care providers who want to include children with disabilities in their homes.
Delaware Early Childhood Center
Early Choices Program
West
and Mispillion Streets
Harrington, DE 19952
Phone: (302) 398-8945
Fax:
(302) 398-8983
Contact: Deborah A. Ziegler, Director
The Delaware Early Childhood Center operates a statewide early childhood special education program, in a variety of settings, for 3-year-old children with mild developmental delays and for 3- and 4-year-old children with speech delays. Available services include referral, screening, multidisciplinary assessment, and early childhood special education.
Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECIP)
3007 North Main
Street
Tarboro, NC 27886
Phone: (919) 823-6031
Fax: (919) 823-0501
Contact:
Evelyn Horton, Early Childhood Intervention Director
ECIP serves families with children, birth to two years, who are at risk for or have diagnosed developmental delays or atypical behavior. ECIP provides developmental programming information and parent support and assistance. Services may be provided through home visits or in center-based settings within the community.
Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education
The Warm
Springs Early Childhood Education Center
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon
P.O. Box C
1257 Kot-Num Road
Warm
Springs, OR 97761
Phone: (541) 553-3241
Contact: Julie Quaid
The Early Intervention Program is designed to assist children, birth to three years, with special needs and disabilities. Children under the age of three years receive most services at home or in the Early Childhood Education center that is housed at this location.
Early Intervention in Child Care Settings
Meeting Street Center
Metropolitan
Early Intervention Program
667 Waterman Avenue
East Providence, RI 02914
Phone:
(401) 438-9500 Ext.321
Fax: (401) 438-3760
Contact: Brenda Dziedzic,
Vice President, Early Childhood Programs
Early Intervention in Child Care Settings (EICCS), a comprehensive support system for parents and child care providers, is a collaborative program of state and community organizations including Metropolitan Region Early Intervention, the Rhode Island Department of Health, the Rhode Island Child Care Training System, the Rhode Island Parent Information Network, the University of Rhode Island, and child care centers in the cities of Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls. Services provided by EICCS include workshops, consultation, classroom support, and printed/video resources.
Enable Children and Family Services
1603 Court Street
Syracuse,
NY 13208
Phone: (315) 455-7591
Fax: (315) 455-2494
Contact: Marian
Andrews, Program Director
Enable Children and Family Services provides special education and related services for children birth to five in community nursery schools, child care centers, or in their own homes, with a focus on family-centered approaches to learning and full inclusion. Enable Children and Family Services ensures that each neighborhood center meets the specific needs of children with disabilities in the community.
Epilepsy Association of Maryland
Project ACT
300 E. Joppa
Road, Suite 1103
Towson, MD 21286
Phone: (410) 828-7700
Contact:
Peggy Florio, Project ACT Facilitator
The Epilepsy Association of Maryland's Project ACT (All Children Together) was started to increase the availability of regulated child care opportunities for children with special needs and to enhance the ability of caregivers to offer quality services to children with disabilities. Project ACT personnel provide parents and child care providers with on-site support, technical assistance, training about specific disabilities, and access to adaptive materials. Project ACT staff members also act as liaisons to community agencies, services, and school systems.
The Extended Day Enrichment Program
Orange County Public Schools
445
West Amelia Street
P.O. Box 271
Orlando, FL 32801
Phone: (407)
849-3200
Fax: (407) 317-3369
Contact: Betsy Fulmer, Ed.D., District
Coordinator
The Extended Day Enrichment Program serves children with and without disabilities, in grades kindergarten to fifth grade. This program provides supervision before and after regular school hours, and during intersessions and summer breaks.
The Family Center of Washington County
Child Development
Associate (CDA) Training Program
32 College Street, Suite 100
Montpelier,
VT 056022
Phone: (802) 828-8770
Contact: Steve Stahl
The Family Center of Washington County, in collaboration with Community College of Vermont, offers a comprehensive CDA Training Program to increase the number of child care providers who are specifically trained to serve children with disabilities in an inclusionary child care setting. Enrolled child care providers receive 10 credits for attending two courses that are offered on Vermont Interactive Television, and through a supervised field experience at their worksites.
Handicare
2220 9th Street
Coralville, IA 52241
Phone:
(319) 354-7641
Contact: Ann Riley, Executive Director
Handicare is a year-round supported inclusion child development program that provides child care for children from six weeks to five years of age in 15 classrooms. A school complement program serves children from six to twelve years.
Head Start Resource Access Project
Education Development Center,
Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02160
Phone: (617) 969-7100
Contact:
Philip Printz
Education Development Center, Inc., is one of a nationwide network of Head Start Resource Access Projects (RAPs) that provide training and technical assistance to Head Start programs to enable them to fully include children with disabilities. RAPs can facilitate collaborative agreements between Head Start programs, child care programs, and state and local education agencies.
Inclusionary Early Childhood Services
The Children's Evaluation
and Rehabilitation Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1410
Pelham Parkway South
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 431-8910
Fax:
(718) 892-4736
Contact: Susan Chinitz, Psy.D., Director of Early Childhood
Center
Inclusionary Early Childhood Services is a collaboration between the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center/University Affiliated Program and the Goose Bay Nursery School, a community-based preschool/child care center, that promotes inclusionary practices. Developmental therapists provide direct on-site services to children with developmental disabilities, who are enrolled in the preschool program. The project also provides training and consultation to child care staff in order to meet the special needs of children with disabilities.
Inclusive Child Care Project of Texas
Inclusionary Early
Childhood Services
130 Lewis Street
San Antonio, TX 78212
Phone:
(210) 225-0276
Fax: (210) 225-8103
Contact: Nancy L. Hard or Kim
Sheffield
Publications:
ABC's of Inclusion
A Parent
Counselor's Guide to Serving Children with Disabilities
The Inclusive Child Care Project of Texas provides training and technical support to family child care providers, child care centers, public schools, early intervention programs, and other community resource agencies that serve children from birth through twelve years.
Karasik Child Care Center
205 South Summit Avenue
Gaithersburg,
MD 20877
Phone: (301) 208-0025
Contact: Christine Shawver, Child Care
Coordinator
The Karasik Child Care Center is a nonprofit program of the Children's Services Division of the Arc of Montgomery County. The year-round center serves children, from two through nine years, in an inclusive setting.
Kids of All Learning Abilities (KOALA)
Greater Boston
Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc. (GBArc)
1505 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston,
MA 02135
Phone: (617) 783-3900
Fax: (617) 783-9190
Contact: Jacqui
Shatos
Kids of All Learning Abilities (KOALA), a project of the Greater Boston Arc and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, facilitates the inclusion of children with disabilities into after-school and recreational programs. KOALA's Integration Specialists help place children in programs and provide on-going training and support to children, parents, and program staff.
The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
4126 Executive Drive
La
Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: (619) 457-3030
Fax: (619) 457-2422
Contact:
Mary Shea, Inclusion Coordinator
The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center has an inclusive preschool program that serves children from two to five years, an inclusive after school youth program, and an inclusive summer day camp program.
Leadership Training to Support Child Care for All Children Project
University
of Illinois
Department of Special Education
Institute for Research on
Human Development
51 Gerty Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217)
333-0260
Contact: Susan Fowler, Project Director
Through this program, a cadre of "Inclusion Leaders" was prepared to work through the Illinois Child Care Resource and Referral System to help expand the quality and quantity of inclusive child care. These Inclusion Leaders provide on-site consultations, workshops, phone assistance, linkages to other agencies, and resource materials for child care providers and families of children with disabilities. Providers and parents can find an Inclusion Leader by calling their local resource and referral agency.
LEARNS: Early Childhood
Center for Community Inclusion
University
of Maine - University Affiliated Program
5717 Corbett Hall
Orono, ME
04469-5717
Phone: (207) 581-1084
Fax: (207) 581-1231
TTY: (207)
581-3328
Contact: Debbie Gilmer, Assistant Director for Community Services
LEARNS is a partnership of community and university resources formed to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, their families, and the professionals who work with them. To meet their goals of community inclusion and interdependence, LEARNS provides interdisciplinary training, disseminates guidelines for creating inclusive schools, and develops informative materials on inclusion. LEARNS has provided outreach education and technical assistance to more than 100 school districts in Maine and has expanded its initiatives for early care and education and families.
LOCATE: Child Care
Maryland Childcare Resource Network
Maryland
Committee for Children
608 Water Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone:
(410) 752-7588
Fax: (410) 752-6286
Contact: Arna Griffith, LOCATE
Director, or Karen Pinkney, Special Needs Counselor
LOCATE: Child Care provides enhanced referral services for families of children with special needs. Parents discuss individual child care needs in detail and have follow-up discussions with a Special Needs Counselor who identifies child care programs matching the family's needs. Follow-up calls are made after four weeks to determine whether the parent is satisfied with care or needs additional referrals and services. Parents can use LOCATE either by phone or in person.
Los Angeles County Fair Association Child Development Center
Fairplex
1101
West McKinley Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
Phone: (909) 865-4100
Fax:
(909) 623-0961
Contact: Pamela Murphy, Children's Services Manager
The Child Development Center is co-sponsored by the Los Angeles County Fair Association and the University of La Verne. The center is inclusive and serves 150 children from six weeks to six years of age. Center staff presents workshops on child development topics in the community and the center serves as a training site for students from universities, community colleges and local school districts.
Michigan Inclusive Education Initiative
Developmental
Disabilities Institute
Wayne State University
6001 Cass Avenue, Suite
326 Justice
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 577-2654
Fax: (313)
577-3770
Contact: Barbara LeRoy, Ph.D., or Susan St. Peter, Ph.D., Associate
Directors for Education
The Michigan Inclusive Education Initiative was established to provide support and technical assistance to school districts working toward inclusion.
New Jersey's Special Needs Child Care Project
Department of
Human Services
Capital Place One
222 South Warren Street, CN - 700
Trenton,
NJ 08625
Phone: (609) 292-8444
Contact: Sandy Sheard
Publications:
More Alike Than Different: Including Children with Special Needs in
School-Age Child Care Settings, a staff training manual by Dale Borman Fink
A collaborative effort among the New Jersey Department of Human Services and the statewide network of child care resource and referral agencies, the Special Needs Child Care Project provides technical assistance and resources for child care providers who wish to develop inclusive programs, regional and on-site training on inclusion, recruitment and support of providers, and opportunities for networking among existing programs and services. Services extend to child care center staff, family child care providers, before- and after-school programs for school-agers, resource and referral agencies, parenting groups, and agencies and professionals working with children with special needs.
Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC)
10340
Democracy Lane, Suite 206
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 691-7826
(voice/TTY)
Fax: (703) 691,8148
Contact: Cherie Takemoto, Executive
Director
PEATC assists parents and professionals in translating the legal rights of children with disabilities into genuine opportunities for full participation in school and community life. The Team Training Program enables parent-professional teams to conduct parent workshops and to provide information and referral services in their communities.
Partnerships for Inclusion
The University of North Carolina
300
NationsBank Plaza, 137 East Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone:
(919) 962-7359
Fax: (919) 962-7328
Contacts: Farley Bernholz and Pat
Wesley, Co-Directors
Publications/Products:
Can I Play Too? [video
series]
All Together Now!: Providing Quality Care & Education for
All Children [newsletter]
This statewide project provides free technical assistance to support the inclusion of young children with disabilities, birth through five, in community child care programs. Inclusion Specialists work with child care providers, early interventionists, child service coordinators, parents, teachers, and resource groups. The co-directors collaborate with state agencies to develop policy and program initiatives that facilitate full community integration of children with disabilities and their families.
Project Blend
Box 328 Peabody
Vanderbilt University
Nashville,
TN 37203
Phone: (615) 322-8277
FAX: (615) 343-1570
Contact: JoAnn
Heiser, Project Coordinator
Project BLEND is a federal model demonstration grant to develop, implement, and evaluate an ecological model of inclusion for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in community child care settings. Project BLEND has assisted the local school district and local early intervention programs in moving from a school-based program to an inclusive community-based approach.
Project EXCEPTIONAL
California Institute on Human Services,
Sonoma State University
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone:
(707) 664-2051
Fax: (707) 664-2417
Contact: Anne Kuschner or Linda
Cranor, Co-Coordinators
Publications: Project Exceptional: Dimensions of
Diversity
Project EXCEPTIONAL has developed training materials designed to recruit and train child care and development staff and early childhood students in quality care and education of young children with disabilities. This project has conducted Training of Trainer workshops for community interagency teams and for community/technical college instructors. Training is also delivered to child care providers, Head Start, staff, resource and referral personnel, family child care providers, families of children with disabilities, vocational high school students, and paraprofessionals in early childhood and special education programs.
Project Special Care
The Indiana Parent Information Network,
Inc.
4755 Kingsway Drive, Suite 105
Indianapolis, IN 46205-1545
Phone:
(317) 257-8683
Fax: (317) 251-7488
Contact: Marsha Thompson,
Co-Coordinator
Project Special Care utilizes existing community-based child care resource and referral services to assist families of children with special needs in locating and accessing appropriate child care. Training and on-going technical assistance are offered to child care providers in a variety of community-based inclusive programs.
Smart Start
North Carolina Partnership for Children
1323
Capital Boulevard, Suite 102
Raleigh, NC 27603
Phone: (919) 821-7999
Fax:
(919) 821-8050
Contact: Karen Ponder, Program Director
Smart Start is a comprehensive initiative to help all children in North Carolina children enter school healthy and ready to succeed. It is designed to provide quality early childhood education, health care and other critical family services for every child under the age of six years.
South Dakota Early Childhood Inclusion Support Project
South
Dakota University Affiliated Program
Department of Pediatrics
USD School
of Medicine
414 E. Clark
Vermillion, SD 57069-2390
Phone: (800)
658-3080
Fax: (605) 677-6274
TTY: (800) 658-3080
Contact: Joanne
Wounded Head or Gera Jacobs
The South Dakota Early Childhood Inclusion Support Project was created to provide statewide support to early childhood professionals working toward the inclusion of children with disabilities in community-based settings. Project staff provide training, informational resources, and networking support to providers and parents. The Project's Toy Lending Library maintains a supply of quality, appropriate toys and equipment for loan to early childhood programs in South Dakota.
SpecialCare Center
3888 Calle Fortunada
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone:
(619) 694-5800
Fax: (619) 560-0415
Contact: Terry Racciato, President
SpecialCare Center is a comprehensive child care center, preschool, and respite program for all children, including those who are medically fragile and technology-dependent. Available on-site services include physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and nursing care.
Special CARE, Inc.
3105 Sunset Blvd.
Oklahoma City, OK
73120
Phone: (405) 752-5112
Contact: Pam Newby, Director
Publications:
Unique Environments
Special CARE integrates children, from six weeks to six years, with and without disabilities, to provide optimal learning opportunities for both groups. Each classroom program is designed to meet the cognitive, physical, social and emotional needs of the children. Parents, teachers and therapists work closely together and a family support group meets monthly.
Training for Inclusion Project
Child and Family Studies
University
of Connecticut
309 Farmington Avenue, Suite A-200
Farmington, CT 06030
Phone:
(203) 679-4632
Contact: Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D., Director of Child and
Family Studies
The Training for Inclusion Project offers comprehensive training to child care providers through six statewide training teams. Each team includes a parent, a child care provider, and a special educator. These teams are available to help teachers, assistants, and directors of child care centers, family child care providers, and families of children with disabilities develop inclusive community care settings.
Valley Early Intervention
Valley Comprehensive Community Mental
Health Center, Inc.
301 Scott Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26505
Phone:
(304) 296-1731 Ext.283
Fax: (304) 293-5322
Contact: P. Kay Nottingham
Chaplin, Program Director
Valley Early Intervention is a Part H of IDEA program, that provides services through home-, center- and community-based models, to promote the development of infants and toddlers (birth to three years) with developmental delays or who are at risk of having developmental delays, and to support their families. One community-based service component is Kinder Tots, Inc. Valley Early Intervention purchases slots in this child care play group and provides an early intervention specialist to ensure the implementation of the Individualized Family Service Plan. In addition, direct and consultative services are provided by occupational, physical and speech therapists.
Yes, You Can Do It! Mentor Training Project
The Children's
Foundation
725 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 505
Washington, DC 20005-2109
Phone:
(202) 347-3300
Contact: Sandy Gellert
Publications: "Yes, You Can
Do It! Caring for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities in Family Child Care"
video and Annotated Resource Directory
The Yes, You Can Do It! Mentor Training Project is an activity of The Children's Foundation, a private, national, educational non-profit organization that strives to improve the lives of children and those who care for them. The project will train family child care providers who are caring for children with disabilities to be mentors for less experienced providers who would like to care for children with disabilities. The Children's Foundation will be conducting the 8-hour training sessions in the mid-Atlantic states.
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