ECE II Compare program goals and types of early childhood pr

Reduces turnover and absenteeism

• Privately sponsored center
• Employer-sponsored center
• Child care parent cooperative

Employers use this to  prevent employees from missing work

• Crisis nursery
• Child care parent cooperative
•  Back-up child care center

On university campus

• Laboratory school
• Montessori preschool
• Privately sponsored center

In the private homes of caregivers

• Family child care home 
• In-home child care
• Back-up child care center

In the homes of the children, Caregiver may come in daily or live there

• Family child care home 
• Child care parent cooperative
• In-home child care

Most widely used type of early childhood program

• Privately sponsored center
• Child care center
• Employer-sponsored center

May operate for profit or be nonprofit

• Privately sponsored center
• Employer-sponsored center
• Laboratory school

Often funded by United Way or other service agency

• Crisis nursery
• Privately sponsored center
• Employer-sponsored center

Funded by social services groups

• Preschool for special needs children
• Crisis nursery
• Head Start preschool

Encourage task mastery, independence 

• Public school kindergarten
• Montessori preschool
• Head Start preschool