Mission: The mission of the organization is to strengthen the early care and education community by developing leadership, promoting high quality early care and education, and building community support.

Programs: T. E. A. C. H. Early childhood delaware is a research based comprehensive strategy to educate and retain early childhood practitioners, positively impacting outcomes for the children in their care. T. E. A. C. H. (teacher education and compensation helps) is a proven effective strategy through its use of four key elements: scholarships, education, compensation, and commitment.

wage$ provide education-based salary supplements to under paid teachers, directors, administrators and family child care providers, working with children birth through five. The participant must be working in a regulated (stars) early care and education setting. The program must be a star 3 or higher. The initiative is designed to increase workforce retention, education, and compensation. The wage$ participant receives a supplement every six months tied to the level of education and retention in their program.

early childhood education workforce stabilization and will be administered by two family service advocates (fsa). They will connect families to much needed community resources and social services. The fsa's will work to increase staff's job satisfaction by allowing them to focus more on teaching, as well as, to decrease staff and parent turnover at the centers by addressing families' basic needs and stressors. This project is a pilot project that mirrors the community schools model in early learning centers.

establish committees and sponsor an annual conference to promote the education of young children.