College of the Redwoods 2008-2009 College Catalog

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On-campus child care is available at College of the Redwoods (Eureka Campus) Child Development Center for toddler and preschool aged children. The CDC provides a play-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum for children.

Free child care is available for children from income eligible families. To receive these services the family must demonstrate a need for child care. (State preschool requires a minimum of 6 ½ hours of enrollment per day starting by 9:00 a.m.)

When space is available, fee-paying parents may enroll their children at the CDC. Parents pay a daily rate based on the hours of care required and the age of the child. CR students, staff, and faculty have priority for these openings. The CDC is open for services from 7:45am-3:30pm all instructional days. Breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack are served to all children at no cost. Drop-in child care is not available.

Parents are invited to visit the CDC with their child. Registration information is available at the Child Development Center, located on the east side of the campus, by the Field House.

CDC Information
The College of the Redwoods Child Development Center simultaneously provides a high-quality laboratory setting for early childhood education students and an enriching child care and development services for the children of CR’s students, staff and faculty.

Play is “Education that works”
Program Philosophy
At the College of the Redwoods Child Development Center we believe children are capable and competent. We are committed to children’s potential and their enjoyment of life. The CDC develops children’s disposition for curiosity, persistence, resourcefulness, problem solving and creativity. We are a community of learners where children and adults explore their world together.

The Child Development Center is an exciting state-of-the-art facility and is a permanent site for many specialized programs as well as serving our students’ child care needs. The facility meets all the Guidelines of Title 22 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Center has several laboratory classrooms with observation areas, an inside covered multi-purpose room, a puppet theater as well as a complete food service facility and outdoor play areas for each age group.

Staffing
The teachers at the Child Development Center are early childhood education professionals with education, training and certificates in child development and experience in Early Childhood Education programs.

In addition to the permanent staff, students from the Early Childhood Education program work in the CDC to master the skills necessary to work effectively with young children.