Part 2-Quality care--what to look for in the childcare

Care Quality improvement Project: taken from Teen Parent Child Care Quality Improvement Project(ten components of quality care)
1. Your program should be licensed and following the appropriate Health and Safety Practices

• Separate areas for food prep, diapering and toileting
• Detailed procedure for emergencies
• Frequent hand washing
• Infants placed on their back to sleep
• Nutritious meals and snacks

2 .Staff well trained in Early Childhood Development (0-3)
 on going education and training is very important  for quality care.

• Caregiver apply their knowledge of infant/toddler development to plan appropriate activities
• Based on their knowledge of infants' and toddlers' developmental needs :
• Care givers  will use routines to promote learning
• provide meaningful opportunities for conversation and interaction with infants/toddlers

You should  have a monthly classroom meeting with your teachers this way you will be able to interact with your co-parents. You can help to plan activities for your classroom. Daily communication is an essential part of that relationship you should get a daily sheet telling you the activities that your infant/toddler did for the day. Your infant is not able to speak so this is one way for you to know what is going on. You  can see more of these tips- 10 components  for quality care for infants and . I will add the others  as we go.