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Child care and development
programs can be cost efficient and beneficial to the family (Lazar 1980).
Additionally, child care and development of children can better
prepare children for school (Zill 1995, Booth 1999, Peisner-Feinberg,
1999). High quality
programs can have a positive impact on children from families
traditionally identified as at risk.
Accessibility asks the questions does the
community have the capacity to serve its families; specifically, all
children needing care, children from low-income families, children of
migrant worker families, children with special needs, and children in
their primary language. Each
of these special populations will be evaluated to determine the extent to
which those children are able to be served in the county.
With out a system to identify license-exempt care we are unable to
accurately determine how many license-exempt providers exist in the
county. Until then, we can
only assess the capacity of licensed care providers to meet the needs of
families. The ability to serve families is dependent upon their need.
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