Building Solutions for Infant and Toddler Care: Creating Spaces that Promote Quality Programming

Join the Child Care Facilities Fund team along with Mike Lindstrom, an internationally recognized speaker, presenter, and expert in the field of early learning environments, in an interactive workshop exploring:

• Research driven links between facility characteristics and programmatic quality 
• Designing, developing and advocating for quality infant/toddler childcare facilities
• Creating classroom spaces that work for your program
• Environmental considerations related to children’s health
• Outdoor space for infants and toddlers
• Arranging and equipping spaces to support program quality

All are welcome; however, this session is geared towards and most appropriate for owners, directors, education coordinators, lead teachers, and all individuals considering expanding child care programming to include infants and toddlers or who are looking to improve their infant/toddler environments. 

This course offers 2.5 professional development hours with certificate of completion. We hope to see you there!

Mike Lindstrom is the founding Principal of studioMLA Architects. As one of the leading architects in the field of early childhood facility design, Mike, along with the late Jim Greenman, led the annual Child Care Design Institute at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Mike has served as an advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics on Child Care Center Design and has extensive experience with the complex design, regulatory, and construction processes inherent in creating children’s environments. Most recently Mike edited the newly updated and released book Caring Spaces, Learning Places.

We encourage you to view a portfolio of Mike’s work at www.studiomla.com.