About Us {Our Mission}
To enhance the quality of Early Care and Education (ECE) for all children and families, the California Early Childhood Mentor Program supports the existing and developing ECE workforce by:
- Offering guidance, training, technical assistance and compensation adequate to create, maintain, and grow high quality local Mentor Programs;
- Providing ample professional development opportunities and enhanced income to the Mentors and Director Mentors participating in our programs;
- Supporting a broad array of training opportunities in how to conduct relationship-based professional development for the Mentors and Director Mentors in our programs;
- Continuously seeking new opportunities to provide relevant, high quality mentoring services to the Early Care and Education community.
Our long-term goal is to provide high quality relationship-based mentoring support to every Early Care and Education student, educator, or administrator in California who wants such support.