For infants and toddlers to develop optimally, they must have healthy beginnings and the continuity of responsive and caring relationships. Together, these supports help promote optimal cognitive, social, emotional, physical and language development. When these supports are missing, the immediate and future development of the child may be compromised. Center research aims to identify characteristics of effective programs that enhance both child and family development. A collaborative, consensus-building approach is used to facilitate active involvement of clients.
Professional staff provide information to improve programs, as well as to determine program impact.
An important goal is to help clients make valid and reliable information gathering and help clients make effective use of information. As conditions for children and youth worsen, a number of individuals have turned their attention to meticulously studying the challenges facing this population. It is the belief that children and youth who are deprived are usually from poor environments which are unable to meet their basic needs of care, food, shelter, health care, and safety. Environment has a tremendous impact upon children and youth. This proposal, Omni , aims to reinvent schools through the use of creating a partnership between the community and school.