These one-of-a-kind materials are all the tools needed to adopt RC3 into your program.
Below is a description of each RC3 Product.
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Booklets for your parents: James Begins Child Care
You and Your Baby Start Child Care
CD-ROM: Creating a Home-Like Environment / VIDEO: A Close Look at RC3
RC3 Portfolios: Establishing Relationships / Partnering With Parents
Caring for Children in Family Groups
Helping Each Child Feel Uniquely Cared About
Creating a Home-Like Environment / Achieving the Vision
Complete Set of 6 RC3 Portfolios
 Booklets for Parents: (Available in both English and Spanish)
WINNERS OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD NEWS DIRECTORS' CHOICE RECOGNITION AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
Welcome parents and children to your center with these simply illustrated booklets. These publications give parents of infants through preschoolers specific ideas for preparing their children for this new experience and recognizes parents' own feelings about entrusting their children to others.
Sold separately or with the Program guide:Families and Caregivers: Establishing Relationships.
Minimum order: 5 books (any combination)
Prices: 5-99 books $1.75 each;
100-1499 books $1.50 each,
plus shipping/handling and sales tax, if applicable
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 CD-ROM: Creating a Home-Like Environment: A Guided Tour
The physical environment in a child care center influences how the children and adults using the space interact with each other.
The spaces created in the building, the materials used in the construction, the arrangement of furnishings and equipment, the color and finishes on the surfaces, and the lighting in the rooms set the tone for the program.
This CD-ROM was created to integrate the work of the architect, the designer, the contractor, and the early childhood professional into an interactive and virtual reality experience to help child care professionals plan optimum environments. It features settings from four of ChildCareGroup's child development centers, built or renovated between 1981 and 1998.
Sold separately or with the Program Guide, The Child's Experience in Care: Creating a Home-Like Environment.
Price: $22.50, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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 Video: A Close Look at Relationship-Centered Child Care
This 14-minute video shows what daily life is like in Relationship-Centered Child Care (RC3) centers from morning arrival to going home time. You will see caregivers managing mixed-age groups in both infant/toddler and preschool programs. Watch a new child cope with separation with the help of his caregiver, observe family-style meal service and the helping roles children play, and view the home-like settings that characterize RC3. The video will entertain and inspire you, and give you some great ideas for activities and environments.
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Sold separately or with the Program guide, Leadership: Achieving the Vision.
Price: $26.50, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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Individual Portfolios:
 Families and Caregivers: Establishing Relationships
Program Guide: 108 pages
Coming into a new center is an important event in the life of a child and his or her family. They will be separating: whether it is for the first time or the fifth, each new situation has its own implications and must be planned for accordingly. Careful preparation by the center staff with parents results in a smooth transition for everyone involved. Included in this Portfolio are:
Price: $45.00, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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Families and Caregivers: Partnering with Parents 
Program Guide: 60 pages
The relationship with parents begins with their first inquiry and continues throughout the family's experience at the center. This Portfolio's Program Guide and Desk Reference feature a variety of proven communications techniques and "how-to's" for keeping parents informed and engaged in center life.
Also included are:
- Parent satisfaction surveys
- Plans for helping parents and children say good-bye to the program, and
- A variety of vignettes highlighting best practices in parent involvement.
Price: $45.00, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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The Child's Experience in Care: Caring for Children in Family Groups Program guide: 78 pages
Mixed-age family groups, each with a primary caregiver, are the cornerstone of RC3. They provide a better experience for children and are easier for staff to manage than straight-age groups. Some of the offerings in this Program Guide and accompanying Desk Reference include:
- Detailed processes for creating family groups—from envisioning how they will work to planning the change—are described.
- Activities, "how-to" charts and sample forms, and examples of real-life experiences in infant/toddler family groups and family groups of preschoolers.
Price: $37.50, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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The Child's Experience in Care: Helping Each Child Feel Uniquely Cared About Program guide: 111 pages
How do you help each child in your program feel like one in a million instead of one of the crowd? This all-inclusive Portfolio focuses on:
- Organizing the day to help each child feel uniquely cared about
- Individualizing responses to children's unique needs
- Planning for smooth transitions from one age group to the next
- Preparing children to leave the program
- Helping children deal with caregiver absences or separations
The Program Guide has many useful forms: "how-to" charts and vignettes; a sample Good-Bye Book for each child who leaves the program, and an example of Our Caregiver's Vacation—a personalized book to help prepare children for their caregiver's absence.
Price: $48.00, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable.
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The Child's Experience in Care: Creating a Home-Like  Environment Program guide: 84 pages
Colors, patterns, textures, and lighting create visual and tactile experiences in a child care center that invite children to look, touch, and wonder. When these components also convey a sense of warmth and welcome, children can better manage being away from home.
The Program Guide and unique CD-ROM in this Portfolio integrate the work of the architect, the designer, the contractor, and the early childhood professional to achieve a home-like environment in child care settings. The Program Guide includes:
- Ideas for recommended square footage, space planning and design elements
- Suggestions for landscaping and
- Information on how to make mealtime more home-like.
Using the virtual reality and interactive make-over features of the CD-ROM (also sold separately), view different classrooms from both an adult's perspective and a child's eye-level. See what happens when you change wall colors, floor coverings, lighting, and more.
Price: $56.00, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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Leadership: Achieving the Vision 
Program guide: 54 pages
Relationship-Centered Child Care is a different way of thinking about and organizing child care. For most programs, it will require some change. Essential to that change is a leader who is committed to RC3, believes that staff can change and grow, and who can see how existing resources can help bring about change. The Portfolio includes a Program Guide to help you:
- Assess your program's current resources,
- Create a change-ready environment,
- Plan staff training, and
- Build an effective RC3 team.
The inspiring 14-minute Video (also sold separately) shows excerpts of daily life in an RC3 center and illustrates the key elements of the model. It should be shown to staff, to parents, and to supporters of your center to help them see child care as it should be.
Price: $56.00, plus shipping/handling charges and sales tax, if applicable
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Complete Set of Six (6) RC3 Portfolios
See above for a full description of each Portfolio.
- Each portfolio contains a Program Guide that addresses one of the key elements of Relationship-Centered Child Care (RC3) and provides richly detailed information, activities, vignettes, and sample materials to help you apply RC3 in your program.
- A CD-ROM takes you on a self-guided tour of four of our child development centers to see for yourself how center environments can be shaped to facilitate relationship-building.
- A Video brings you into the classroom for close look at how RC3 works.
Price: $195.00, plus shipping/handling charges and sales taxes, if applicable
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