Strengthening Human Service Agencies

Early Care and Education Quality Improvement

“We want parents to care about quality and to understand what makes a quality program. By being an NAEYC accredited program, with the support of FPWA’s QNY project, we are able to educate families about accreditation and what quality early education looks like.”
- Jeannette Corey, Director of Early Childhood Services, Phipps Head Start

FPWA assists New York City early care and education programs in improving teaching and administrative practices in order to reach the high-quality national standards established by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). We uses the NAEYC self-study and accreditation process as a guide for child care, Early Head Start, Head Start and private early education programs to improve. As an accreditation facilitation project, we help program staff, parents and public officials to better understand the value of program standards and working together toward continuous quality improvement.

FPWA is proud to be a founding partner in the Quality New York collaborative. Since 2002, more than half of the 83 programs assisted by QNY in achieving NAEYC accreditation are FPWA member agency early care and education programs.

Quest for Quality in Early Care and Education Programs - FPWA is presenting Quest for Quality, a three-part sequence of workshops to help early care and education programs develop a system for assessing and addressing quality issues. Quest for Quality will help you use standards, assessments, classroom observation, portfolios, administration, and leadership to implement supports for continuous quality improvement.
Fee for Service quality improvement consulting and staff training for all facets of early care and education program operations.

For more information contact Mary Hayes, Program Director, ph. (212) 801-1319 or Madeline Brame, Program Assistant, ph. (212) 801-1308.

Bonda Lee-Cunningham, JD
Director, Member Services
(212) 801-1324
Judith Milone, LMSW
Assistant Director
(212) 801-1350

William Ferren
Director, Group Purchasing Service
(212) 801-1349

Karen Giacalone
Coordinator, Volunteer Services
(212) 801-1332

Mary Hayes, MS ED
Director of Early Childhood Accreditation, Quality New York
(212) 801-1319

Blanche M. Centeno-Hatwood, LMSW
Sen. Program Assoc. for Fin. Assist./ Info. and Referral
(212) 801-1366

Kim Lerner
Program Associate
(212) 801-1338