Early Learning Program

With great sadness and regret, the North East Community Center must announce that we are forced to suspend our Early Learning Program (ELP) until further notice. We recognize the hardship this presents to the families currently enrolled in our ELP and over the next several weeks we will be working diligently with those families to help them secure other daycare options for their children.  We are also broken-hearted to lose the incredible members of our staff who have nurtured this program with the compassion and dedication that is most needed by the children entrusted to our care.

Providing quality childcare is a costly endeavor. All daycare providers face serious and sometimes insurmountable economic challenges in order to provide high-quality daycare. Low enrollment over the last 3 years, coupled with a county-wide suspension of new applications for childcare subsidies, have made it impossible for many families to enroll their children in our program.

Rising costs in every aspect of program operations have forced our Board of Directors to make this difficult choice. Continuing to operate the Early Learning Program would put several of NECC’s other programs at risk, programs that provide increasingly critical support to thousands of community residents - including seniors, veterans, working families, teens, and school-aged children (through our afterschool and summer enrichment programs).

NECC’s mission is to support the whole family - young and old - and the whole community, regardless of means. We know that affordable care for our youngest children is one of the greatest challenges families are facing. NECC’s Board of Directors and leadership are continuing to explore pathways to bring back a sustainable, affordable early childhood program.  We hope to have more information to share in the future.

Christine Sergent
Executive Director