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Mission Statements For Child Care Centers: In the United States, there are increasing group day care facilities, particularly under programs such as "Head-Start" and "Get Set," which have the objective 'of breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. These group day care centers may be called day nurseries, day care centers, child care centers, or nursery schook Not all nursery schools are true day care centers, but any good day care program for children of nursery school age will have an educational component in its program indistinguishable from that of a good nursery school. Because sound early childhood education is an important feature of a good day nursery as well as of a good nursery school, the distinction between the two kinds of programs tends to blur.
This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
Child welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their children's needs.
A few beginnings made before 1900 included: the first purchase of a playground site by a municipality, Brookline, Massachusetts (1872) ; enactment of state legislation on the subject of playgrounds in Pennsylvania and New York (1887) ; Boston's pioneer efforts, growing from the sandpile provided in the yard of the Children's mission statements for child care centers (1885) to ten such centers by 1887, the transition from the locations in mission statements for child care centers yards to school-yards, and in 1899, with 21 centers, appropriation, by the city council of $3,000 to defray costs previously paid by a voluntary agency.
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