ABSTRACT
The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Project is designed to provide a setting in which active intervention in the lives of culturally deprived children can take place. Careful longitudinal studies parallel these efforts, evaluating and modifying them as new knowledge and skills accumulate. Central to the plans for the day-care facility is the concept of the "family unit," of which there will be twenty. Each of the family units will have twelve children, ranging in age from early infancy through the kindergarten years. In collaboration with the Chapel Hill Board of Education, which has provided part of the building funds and furnish part of the operational funds, a twenty-four-room elementary school accommodate children who have experienced the day-care program, a large number of the children in the control group to be described later, and as space permits, other community children. A multifaceted program is planned that draw on the talents and interests of many departments of the university.
