Upon successful completion of the learning experience, students will be able to understand how to create a learning community of children and adults that promotes optimal child development and healthy families; demonstrate strategies to establish systems for program functioning and managing staff to carry out the mission of the program; planning and budgeting the program’s fiscal resources, managing organizational change, and establishing systems to monitor and evaluate organizational performance; prepare recruitment, selecting, and orientating personnel; overseeing systems for the supervision, retention, and professional development of staff that affirms program values, and promote a shared vision; collaborate by establishing partnerships with program staff, family members, board members, community representatives, civic leaders, and other stakeholders; and understand the importance of advocacy by taking action and encouraging other to work on behalf of high-quality services that meet the needs of children and their families.