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Strengthening Human Service Agencies

Quality New York

Supporting Accreditation for Early Care and Education Community through NAEYC Accreditation Facilitation

“We want parents to care about quality and to understand what makes a quality program. By being an NAEYC accredited program, with the support of FPWA’s QNY project, we are able to educate families about accreditation and what quality early education looks like.”
- Jeannette Corey, Director of Early Childhood Services, Phipps Head Start

Quality New York (QNY) assists New York City early care and education programs in improving teaching and administrative practices in order to reach the high-quality national standards established by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). QNY, a collaboration between Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Bank Street College of Education, and Child Care Inc., uses the NAEYC self-study and accreditation process as a guide for child care, Early Head Start, Head Start and private early education programs to improve. As an accreditation facilitation project, QNY helps program staff, parents and public officials to better understand the value of program standards and working together toward NAEYC accreditation as a process of continuous quality improvement.

FPWA is proud to be a founding partner in the QNY collaborative. Since 2002, more than half of the 83 programs assisted by QNY in achieving NAEYC accreditation are FPWA member agency early care and education programs.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
Introduction to NAEYC Workshop

Dates:
Friday, October 17, 2008 from 9:30AM - 12:00Noon at FPWA

Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 10:00 AM-12:00 Noon at Child Care Inc, 322 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001

For more information, contact our Early Childhood office: Mary Hayes, Director of Early Childhood Accreditation.

For extensive information about QNY, to download an application to join the project or to view the QNY NEWS, Visit www.QualityNewYork.org

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Bonda Lee-Cunningham, JD
Director, Member Services
Pro-Bono Legal Assistance

Judith Milone, LMSW
Assistant Director
Employee Assistance Program, Agency Administered Grants

Darlene Brinson
Administrative Assistant
Group Purchasing Service

Karen Giacalone
Coordinator, Volunteer Services
Recruiting Volunteers and Board Members

Alison Pepper, M.Ed.
Director of Early Childhood Accreditation
Quality New York

Deborah E. Reid, MA
Director, Management Assistance and Professional Development
Training and Professional Development, Management Assistance, Grants Program