This conference report contains a list of conference participants, conference schedule, keynote speeches, excerpts from selected workshops, and participants' responses to a conference evaluation questionnaire. The Director of the Bureau of Child Health in New York City emphasized in her keynote speech the importance of health care and outlined two models of adequate, comprehensive Day Care health programs. In a second keynote speech, the Commissioner of the Agency for Child Development explained the necessity of organizing a children's lobby in New York State to make legislators and public officals responsive and accountable for providing publicly funded early childhood education, health services, and nutrition services. Workshop reports focused on a number of issues pertaining to preparation for day care, programs in day care, parents and community in day care, and children in day care. (CS)