High Five: Searching for the Best Early Childhood Program

Choosing a high quality early childhood program for your child is an important decision. While cleanliness, health and safety policies, staff qualifications, staff-child ratio, group size and number of square feet per child are important, recent research shows that high quality relationships are also important. Children talk to and interact with the people and things around them, and these interactions and relationships help children develop and learn. When searching for the right early childhood program for your child, look for programs that encourage healthy relationships. The downloadable brochure below is designed to help you make this choice.