Continuity of Care Podcast
Learn more about continuity of care. Find out how it can support young children’s development. Explore why using it in your program can help build better relationships between children, families, and their teachers.
Learning Environments
Learning environments are nurturing spaces that support the development of all young children. They include classrooms, play spaces, areas for caregiving routines, and outdoor areas. Learning environments are well-organized and managed settings. They offer developmentally appropriate schedules, lesson plans, and indoor and outdoor chances for choice, play, exploration, and experimentation. Learning environments include age-appropriate equipment, materials, and supplies. They integrate home cultures and are flexible to support the changing ages, interests, and characteristics of a group of children over time. In home-based programs, the learning environment includes the home, community, and group socialization spaces.
Using Mixed-age Groups to Support Continuity of Care in Center-based Programs
This guide presents the benefits of and strategies in offering mixed-age groupings. Explore this resource to learn how to support continuity of care for young children and families.
Continuity of Care
Center-based programs can use these resources to support decisions about implementing continuity of care and choosing the best type for their program.
Continuity of Care Tip Sheet
This tip sheet outlines how continuity of care is key to the healthy development of young children birth to 3. It also lists three types of continuity of care systems.