The Child and Family Partnership has sponsored Reaching IN …Reaching OUT (RIRO) since 1998. The four partners include:

	The YMCA of Greater Toronto The YMCA provides a variety of programs and services in support of healthy families, children and communities. The YMCA of The Greater Toronto Area is the largest not-for-profit childcare provider in Canada. The YMCA's Family Development Centre (FDC) was established in 1998 to promote innovative and best practices in childcare, family support and staff development. An extensive on-going training schedule provides new information to all staff on best practices for children and their families. The FDC is one of two participating pilot childcare sites from the YMCA. www.ymcatoronto.org
	The University of Guelph The University of Guelph has long been recognized as a leader in both undergraduate and graduate education in Child Studies and in research related to childcare, child development and family relationships and community-based programs. The Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being provides an applied interdisciplinary focus for new research, education, and service initiatives in partnerships with others.  The University's child care and learning centre is participating in RIRO. www.uoguelph.ca/FAMILY or www.worklifecanada.ca
	Child Development Institute (formerly known as The Crèche Child and Family Centre) The Child Development Institute (CDI) has for 90 years maintained a singular focus on the needs of young children and their families in the inner city of Toronto. It is a multi-service agency providing a range of multi-disciplinary and responsive services including prevention and family support programs, childcare, childcare consultation, early intervention, child abuse treatment, substance abuse recovery, day treatment and community development services to high risk communities. All programs are delivered in collaborative models with many partners. One of the CDI's childcare centres is participating in RIRO. www.childdevelop.ca
	George Brown College George Brown College is a leader in providing early childhood educational and other children's services in Ontario. George Brown provides diploma training to over five hundred students as well as post diploma training through Continuing Education in a variety of areas such as inclusion of children with special needs and childcare administration and management. The College also operates eight childcare centres, two of which are pilot centres for RIRO. www.gbrownc.on.ca