RCI believes that the education and care children receive in their earlier years prepares them for successful adulthood and the ability to make positive changes for the world's peoples. RCI seeks to expand quality early childhood education in community child care settings to other sites, as well as to maintain excellent quality standards in its current sites. The purpose of this endeavor is to continually foster the well-being of children and their families, provide the community at-large with a valuable and critically needed service, and to promote excellence in early childhood teaching practices while encouraging professional growth in staff.