The purpose of this report is to document the effects of the new preschool program on the children and families participating in the Readiness to Learn in Minority Francophone Communities project (henceforth referred to by its abbreviated title: Readiness to Learn project; formerly known as the Child Care Pilot Project), a demonstration project funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). The project tests a preschool child care program which pairs a child care component specifically developed to meet the needs of francophone children in minority settings with a family literacy component targeting the children's parents. The program aims to develop a child's language skills, knowledge and use of French, awareness of and identification with the francophone culture as well as foster his or her school readiness and overall development. The program is evaluated using a quasi-experimental research design with non-equivalent comparison groups. The research design comprises three treatment groups: the Program Daycare group made up of children enrolled in francophone daycare centres offering the new preschool program; the Comparison Daycare group consisting of children enrolled in francophone daycares that do not offer the new program; and the Informal Care group consisting of children who are cared for during the day at home or in an unregulated family daycare setting. The Comparison Daycare group aims to control for the influence of a formal daycare centre on child development, a treatment in itself. The Informal Care group controls for the influence of an informal care setting on child development. The project includes two participating cohorts -- the first enrolled in 2007 and the second enrolled in 2008. This report concerns data collected from May 2007 to October 2009 from the first cohort of participants. This period corresponds to a time when the children were, on average, between the ages of three and five. A mixed research methodology was used as part of the Readiness to Learn project. This approach entails the use of a range of tools, both quantitative and qualitative in nature, from several information sources, all selected based on the research objectives. (author abstract)