Describes campus day care and education center provision and its impact on individual families and the community. Details the kind of support campus children's centers can provide student or staff families, and the impact they can have on other centers and schools in the area by serving as model facilities and training sites. (ET)

The Child Care Initiative Project, a public-private partnership designed to build the supply of child care throughout California, has achieved remarkable success in recruiting and training providers and increasing the number of child-care spaces in family day-care settings. Community-based organization and strong evaluation instruments have been…