Peters – BBBF resource

I think the fact that this is a longitudinal study is important, particularly in terms of its emphasis on all the qualitative descriptive work that we have done in terms of haw these programs have developed, and also in terms of the cost, the economic analysis, the costs and the benefits, those are very unique for Canadian studies. So we think that has a lot of implications for public policy because of that. Also all of the work we did describing how these programs got up and operating and all the pitfalls they had and all the difficulties they had in terms of implementing them, and there were many, we have all that recorded because our researchers were there, and within the last two years we’ve now developed materials which are available for communities to access if they’re interested to see how, from our research, these programs developed, what the outcomes were, what the benefits were, what the trials and tribulations were, and can use that as a way of developing their own programs if they’re interested in community based integrated models of early childhood development.