Are you looking to grow your leadership skills and enhance your child care business’ operations? Join NECC’s Business Pathways to Quality (BPQ) program and gain the tools and support to strengthen your program and foster continuous improvement!
The Business Pathways to Quality program supports child care programs by offering business training, access to resources, and mentoring to enhance their operations and leadership skills. Directors and Family Child Care Providers set goals based on assessments and work with mentors over six months to achieve them.
The program aims to foster continuous quality improvement and a growth mindset, so after you’ve accomplished one goal, you can begin a new pathway for your next one!
Participating in the Business Pathways to Quality (BPQ) program at NECC offers numerous benefits designed to strengthen your program’s business operations and promote quality growth in the early childhood education field.
Here are some key advantages:

The program offers exclusive grant opportunities to help the programs achieve their goals.

Providers experience increased community relations, feelings of support, and job satisfaction.

The program helps providers take meaningful steps toward achieving high-quality programs by setting and achieving actionable goals.

Participants develop and uphold improved business practices that enhance the quality and sustainability of their programs.

Participants receive ongoing mentoring to help achieve their goals, along with access to professional development opportunities.

Providers enrolled in the program receive a business assessment to set continuous quality improvement and professional development goals.