This initiative is intended to create state-of-the-art early childhood learning centers for children under age 5 from low-income families. The centers serve as model programs to emphasize innovative, high quality programs to promote positive, holistic child development, with an emphasis on intellectual and social development. Each center is responsible to provide outreach and training to parents and training for child care providers in the local community. In addition, local child care resource and referral agencies administer a grants program that other child care providers can apply for in order to establish their own high quality early childhood learning programs. The concept is that the best practices of the excellence centers will be replicated by other child care programs.

Go to Wisconsin's Early Childhood Excellence Initiative website.