according to the authors of the article “strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world”, "the most effective early child development programs provide direct learning experiences to children and families, are targeted toward younger and disadvantaged children, are of longer duration, high quality, and high intensity, and are integrated with family support, health, nutrition, or educational systems and services." skip's educational and family support programs fit directly within this framework and skip's continually improving results can be attributed to the organization's commitment to working within this framework of a development program of long duration and high intensity.