NewsRelease

Conference to Focus on Improving Quality of Child Care
 
GREENSBORO — Most North Carolina children will spend some time in child care before starting school, yet few will have access to high quality care.

“Child Care Quality: Next Steps,” a conference Friday – Saturday, Nov. 1-2, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will explore ways that professionals and policy makers can take steps to improve child care access and quality. It is free and open to the public.

The program is 1 – 5 p.m. Friday in the Alumni House, continuing 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Jarrell Lecture Hall in Jackson Library. Refreshments will be provided, as well as a continental breakfast on day two. The conference is designed for anyone who has an interest in the future of child care.

Presenters are nationally and internationally known experts who will discuss child care from many perspectives. Speakers are Sheila Kamerman, Compton Foundation Centennial Professor for the Prevention of Child and Youth Problems at Columbia University; Suzanne Helburn, professor emerita of economics at the University of Colorado at Denver and co-author of  “America’s Child Care Problem: The Way Out,”; Dwayne Crompton, executive director of KCMC Child Development Corporation in Kansas City, Mo.; Rosemary Vardell, director of the resources and training department of the Center for the Child Care Workforce based at UNCG; Karen Ponder, executive director of the North Carolina Partnership for Children and Sue Russell, executive director of the Child Care Services Association based in Chapel Hill.

More information on the conference is available by calling (336) 334-3601 or online http://www.uncg.edu/hdf/conf.html.

UNCG is a nationally recognized resource in the field of child care, playing a key role in research, advocacy and assessments. The university houses the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project, the Center for the Child Care Workforce and the Family Research Center, as well as a pre-school for visually impaired children and two five-star child care education programs in its Child Care Education Program.

Back to the Latest News Releases
Return to the University News Service Home Page