Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
Friends Center for Children provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. Our year-round, full time program offers a child-centered learning experience, values-based curriculum and a community of care that includes skilled and dedicated educators, family participation, and a comprehensive emotional well-being program.
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We know that high-quality early childhood education makes a critical difference in a child’s later learning and life outcomes; and we believe that every child should have the opportunity to access this kind of care. In New Haven the need for affordable quality early childhood education for infants and toddlers is acute. Friends Center, which provides this high quality care and learning, is determined to expand its program – and to expand our support for teachers to facilitate their ability to build careers in early childhood education. We’re opening new centers throughout the city that offer our child-centered curriculum rooted in Quaker values, supported by a comprehensive emotional wellbeing program, and made accessible with sliding scale tuition. We’re also offering an increasing number of our teachers a unique salaried benefit to live rent-free through our Teacher Housing Initiative, facilitating their ability to achieve financial goals.
THE NEW YORK TIMES — Kristen Calderon was making about $37,000 a year as an early childhood educator in New Haven, Conn. It was more than the state’s average salary for the job but given the high cost of housing, it was barely enough.
“Every month, I had to decide on a rotating basis which bill I wasn’t going to pay,” she said.
But recently, all that changed.
As Friends Center for Children prepares for the new school year, two of the school’s teachers are getting ready to move – but they will be living rent-free – in […]
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THE CONNECTICUT MIRROR features Friends Center’s Teacher Housing Initiative as a solution to alleviate the high costs associated with Connecticut’s housing shortage and child care provider operations.
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FOOTE SCHOOL ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT — “Allyx Schiavone ’85 doesn’t take “no” for an answer — not if she knows there is a better answer. She has made it her mission — and profession — to take up the causes that are closest to her heart, and she’s made it clear that she will not back down from a challenge.”
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NBC CONNECTICUT — Friends Center for Children is reconstructing the former Cine4 movie theater into an early childhood daycare center.
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On February 7, 2023, Friends Center Executive Director Allyx Schiavone had the opportunity to meet the President and speak on behalf of early childhood education, alongside U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro at a press conference led by U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT — A Connecticut-wide coalition of child care providers and advocates has stepped up its call for state government to increase funding for an industry in “crisis” because the demand from families far exceeds the supply of educators.
That was the key takeaway from a Zoom-assisted online press conference hosted Tuesday morning by the group Child Care for Connecticut’s Future.
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NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT — The lights are off and the popcorn’s all gone from a decades-old independent movie theater on Middletown Avenue — which new nonprofit owners aim to convert to a bustling campus for affordable early childhood education.
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On December 16, Friends Center continued its Let’s Talk series, welcoming Senator Chris Murphy for an online conversation about the perils and progress of the Early Care and Education industry. […]
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“Our program at Friends Center is child-centered, hands-on, play-based, and family-focused,” Allyx said. “All of this came from Bank Street, and none of that has changed over the course of time. What has changed is the world around us.”
Read MoreAt Friends Center, we feel that one of the best ways to get to know our program and its impact is through the words and experiences of our community: our partners, supporters, families, teachers and friends.
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