The records for the 4C's program includes information on both the Lane County chapter, which the Lane Community College Home Economics Department helped coordinate, and the federal program itself, which started in 1968 to help meet the growing need for child care in the United States. The newspaper clippings document some of the controversy over federal versus private control of child care that the 4C's caused within the child care community in Lane County. The correspondence shows the positive response that many community members had to the 4C's program.