The Orange County Early Care and Education Needs Assessment

The Orange County Early Care and Education Needs Assessment (ECENA) was begun in Fall 2000.  Using over a dozen different studies and data sources, the ECENA compiled a wider array of information on early care needs in Orange County than has ever been previously assembled.  The ECENA sought to answer the following questions:

• What are the current early childhood care and education options in Orange County?
• Which groups of parents utilize which kinds of care, and why?
•  How do parents and teachers define quality early childhood education?
•  How do parents and teachers define school readiness (the characteristics that make a child ready for kindergarten)

The final draft of the 2001 ECENA Report is now available!  Click here.