Gersh & Sarah LEMBERG CHILDRENS CENTER INC at BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
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Mission Statement
Play. Grow. Learn. LCC is a community of learners, a comprehensive early education school, as well as a positive and creative environment for supporting all as we work to live healthy lives with empathy and a respect for research, effort and equity.
About This Cause
The Children’s Center has several missions. - To provide the highest quality educational child care program for parents with young children aged 2 months to 7 years old. - To prepare teachers to implement evidence based best practice standards cited by the early education community, - To support parents in raising healthy children with research and parenting education services utilizing best practice methods from science. - To support research in child development and educational methods for the advancement of knowledge and practice. - To collaborate with community organizations for the benefit of early educational programs in Waltham and Internationally. The Lemberg Center is a separate corporation serving Brandeis University, Waltham and the international early education & parenting education communities. At Brandeis we assist departments in preparing future teachers, supporting child development researchers and college students with hands on learning opportunities as well as providing highly acclaimed childcare. The center is the American Psychological Association’s Northeast Regional Training Center for ACT Raising Safe Kids parenting education and violence prevention program and a family resource center for Waltham and surrounding communities. The Center is accredited by NAEYC, funded by the Commonwealth for its full-day Universal PreKindergarten program, and holds memberships in many professional associations including the Council of Child Development Laboratory School Administrators (CCDLA), National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers (NCCCC), Mass Council of Human Service Providers (Providers Council) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Our director was selected the 2012 Director of the Year for the NCCCC. The center community is very diverse. Currently more than 55% of the children speak a language other than English at home and the staff of 130 is approximately 50% white. Unlike many child care programs many of the adults working with children are men, our adult to child ratio is very low and our head teachers well educated and very experienced. Founded in 1970 by Brandeis students, staff and faculty to provide full day childcare for the community as well as the university, there are currently six classrooms for 73 children ages 2 months to 6 years, a full-time staff of 20 professionals many of whom with advanced college degrees in early education and early intervention and 110 teaching assistants and volunteers. Our state of the art facility was completed in June 2014 for $3.5 million and is fully HP accessible. The Center receives funding from the Commonwealth Department of Early Education and Care, The Samuel Rapaporte Foundation, the American Psychological Association, Brandeis University and many alumni and friends. The majority of our operating funds are from tuition paid for childcare. Tuition rates are charged on a sliding scale by household income. In 2013-14 we received in-kind volunteer hours equalling over $200,000. Our operating budget for 2014-15 is $1.5 million.