Expansion Project
At Early Care and Learning Partnership, we are dedicated to addressing the need for quality, affordable early care and learning in our community. We strive to make sure that all children in our community have access to the best possible start in life, and to this end, through the Community Child Care Expansion Project (C3EP), we plan to double the existing combined capacity of Otter Creek Child Center and College Street Children’s Center, providing access to quality care for more families. This would not be possible without our community partnership with Middlebury College, who are a vital and integral part of this important project.
The Community Child Care Expansion Project (C3EP) is a cooperative effort of families, Otter Creek Child Center (OCCC), College Street Children’s Center, Middlebury College , the Early Care and Learning Partnership , Champlain Valley Early Head Start , Let’s Grow Kids, Building Bright Futures , area employers, educational institutions, and towns. It is a response to a decade-long concern by families and employers about the lack of high-quality affordable care. This project addresses an urgent need for infant and preschool-age child care in our community by more than doubling the existing combined capacity of OCCC and College Street Children’s Center and subsequently providing an important boost to the local economy.
The Board
The Early Care and Learning Partnership is a non-profit organization based in Addison County, Vermont that is devoted to supporting high-quality early care and learning services to children and their families. We are a small, close-knit team of professionals including doctors, health care specialists, and early years providers and experts, all of whom have the wellbeing of children and families at heart. We emphasize a whole child and whole family approach to early years education to ensure that all families in our community have access to the best possible care for their children.
