The purpose of this report is to document the implementation and impact of the Readiness to Learn in Minority Francophone Communities project (short title: Readiness to Learn project; previously the Child Care Pilot Project, or CCPP), a demonstration project funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) was hired to implement, manage, collect and analyze the project data. The project tests a preschool program that combines a childcare component developed specifically to meet the needs of Francophone children in minority settings with a family literacy component targeting the parents of these children. This program aims to develop the child's language skills, knowledge and use of French, knowledge of and engagement in Francophone culture, as well as to foster the child's school readiness and general development. The program is evaluated using a quasi-experimental methodology with non-equivalent control groups. The methodology involves three treatment groups: the Program Daycare group, consisting of children enrolled in a French-language daycare that offers the new preschool program; the Comparison Daycare group, consisting of children enrolled in a French-language daycare that does not offer the new program; and the Informal Care group, consisting of children whose daytime care is provided at home or at an unregulated family daycare. The purpose of the Comparison Daycare group is to take into account how formal daycare affects child development, which is a subject unto itself. The purpose of the Informal Care group is to factor in how an informal childcare environment affects child development. The project has two cohorts of participants, the first recruited in 2007 and the second, in 2008. This report focuses on the data collected prior to the intervention and over the two years of program delivery, that is, from May 2007 to October 2009 for the first cohort and from October 2008 to October 2010 for the second cohort. This period corresponds to the time when the children ranged from ages three to five, on average. A mixed research methodology was used for the Readiness to Learn project. (author abstract)