New Hampshire Child Care Resource & Referral Network

If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson

Providing Quality

Regular Program Assessment

If you have read through this website, done some assessment of your program and implemented changes to improve the quality of your program, then you have taken the first step to improving the quality of care you provide. If you have done further research on some, all or other topics related to providing high quality child care, assessed your program using a more formal assessment tool, such as one of the Environmental Rating Scales, and implemented changes to improve the quality of your program, you’ve taken a bigger step. Perhaps now you are ready to work towards becoming accredited by the NAEYC, NAA or NAFCC.

Quality indicators include:

• Low Child to Staff Ratios and Small Group Size

• A Continuity of Care

• A System of Primary Caregiving

• A Partnership with Parents

• A Qualified Staff

• A Professional Staff

• A Safe Environment

• A Healthy Environment

• Opportunities for Play

• Appropriate Toys and Materials for Learning

• An Esthetically Pleasing Environment

• Positive Guidance and Discipline

• Regular Program Assessment

• Accreditation

This website is offered, under Agreement with the State of New Hampshire, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Children, Youth and Families, Child Development Bureau, with funds provided in part or in whole by the State of New Hampshire and/or United States Department of Health and Human Services.