Child Caregiving & Early Learning | National Caregiving Resources | Working from Home with Kids
If you are looking for local child care providers, here is a list to get started. There may be fees associated with some services.
Resources listed are for families seeking care and support during the year for infants through 5th grade. Note: this list is not inclusive of all caregiving programs.
The Lafayette College Early Learning Center offers quality, nurturing child care and an age-appropriate learning environment for children from 6 weeks old through age 5. The center offers infant, toddler, preschool, and kindergarten prep programs.
Caregiving Spaces is a site available to Lafayette faculty and staff to seek out, share, and connect about child, adult, and pet caregiving and personal well-being, similar to an online community bulletin board. Caregiving Spaces can also be accessed through my.lafayette.edu by entering your College user name and password, selecting “Spaces” and then “Caregiving” which will bring you to the Caregiving Spaces site.
School age child care provides options to meet a family's need for before/during/after school programs for school-age children.
To protect students and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, several local school districts have decided to pursue fully virtual or hybrid scheduling. In order to support working families, the YMCA has partnered with Lehigh Valley Children's Centers and several other local childcare organizations to present the Edu-Childcare Program.
NCC Children's Centers are located on the college's Bethlehem and Pocono campuses and accept children 2 years to kindergarten entry. Both centers are staffed by qualified teachers employed by the college. The centers offer full and part time care and education on a full year basis to children of NCC students, staff and the community. Our arts-based emergent curriculum is implemented in the centers' universally designed for learning classrooms (UDL).
*DISCLAIMER:
Lafayette College’s Caregiving Spaces, which serves as a family support bulletin board are voluntary resources available to and populated by College employees. Caregiving Spaces are not sponsored by, recommended, or endorsed by, Lafayette College. Lafayette College undertakes no duty and is not responsible for monitoring or updating Caregiving Spaces Job postings, or for the services rendered. By participating in the Caregiving Spaces you acknowledge the information provided is public to the Lafayette Community and Lafayette College bears no liability. The Caregiving Spaces site are offered as a community service to provide a location where members of the Lafayette community share information for the purpose of connecting with one another about events, products, and services that may be of interest to the caregivers looking to connect with one another and share resources.
The following resources provide referral services for child care. There may be fees associated with some services.
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