Infant and Toddler Child Care
Region II New York State Infant and Toddler Resource Network
What do we do?
Enhance and support high quality care for infants and toddlers in:
- Family Child Care Homes
- Group Family Child Care Homes
- Child Care Centers
- Legally Exempt programs
- Families
- Agencies serving children and families
- Provide assistance and support to trainers in the Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies within our nine county region
What do we offer Infant and Toddler Caregivers?
- Information on best practices in infant and toddler child care
- Information on current research and developments in the field
- Technical assistance for existing and potential caregivers serving infants and toddlers
- Training and workshops
- A lending library of resource books, journals, and videotapes
- Answers to questions and concerns
View our brochure that outlines “The Ten Components of Quality Infant & Toddler Care”
Contact Information:
We house an Infant Toddler Specialist in every Child Care Resource and Referral Agency within the nine counties of Region II. You can contact your local agency and ask for the IT Specialist in your community. Please see the following:
Child Care Council, Inc.
595 Blossom Road, Suite 120
Rochester, New York 14610 585-654-4720
Director of Infant & Toddler Services- Kristin Perrone
Infant Toddler Specialists-Rose Shufelt, Chelsea Peckham, Catherine Turco
Serving Monroe, Livingston, and Wayne Counties
Chemung County Child Care Council
571 East Market Street, Suite 205
Elmira, NY 14901
607-734-7293
Anita Quinitchett & Emily Lunduski
Child & Family Resources
100 East Main Street
Penn Yan, NY 14527
315-536-1134 Serving Ontario, Seneca, Yates
Tracy Travis & Amanda Miller
Steuben Child Care Project
117 East Steuben Street, Suite 11
Bath, NY 14810
607-776-2126 x234, (800) 553-2033
Elizabeth Ryder & Cynthia Horton serving Steuben and Schuyler counties
Program for Infant Toddler Care (PITC)
Our trainers participated in an Intensive Training Institute for Program for Infant and
Toddler Care (PITC) presented by West ED. This internationally known program is
considered the gold standard for best practices for babies and toddlers in
group child care settings. New York now has a cadre of certified PITC trainers
who will become part of the state trainers’ registry!
To find out more about The Program for Infant Toddler Care,
visit here.
http://www.pitc.org/pub/pitc_docs/home.csp
To read more about our network or to review the latest data
reports, please visit the Early Care and Learning Council’s website here.
http://www.earlycareandlearning.org/infant—toddler-network.html
