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.
This short film illustrates the Teacher Housing Initiative’s origin, evolution, and future and demonstrates the tools Friends Center provides for educators to build financial and emotional security, improve well-being, and build generational wealth.
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You’re invited to the grand opening of Phase 1 of our Flint Street Family Campus!
We are looking forward to exciting events throughout the weekend.
Hear about what’s possible when we invest in the infrastructure of the early care and education industry, featuring Friends Center Executive Director Allyx Schiavone, Friends Center educator Paris Pierce, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, and Elm City Communities President Karen DuBois-Walton
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Friends Center for Children welcomed Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Senator Richard Blumenthal to our future headquarters on Flint Street to showcase the progress our community is making toward expanding access to high-quality child care in New Haven.
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WTNH — The former Cine-4 movie theater in New Haven is being transformed into a new child care center. On Tuesday, Friends Center for Children held a groundbreaking ceremony at the Flint Street site to mark the next phase in the project.
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CBS MORNINGS — To address the dual issues of low teacher pay and affordable housing, a pioneering program in New Haven, Connecticut, is offering early childhood educators free housing as a solution.
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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.”
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.
