{"id":12,"date":"2017-11-04T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2023-12-06T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:08:46","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/staging\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarendon Early Education Services, Inc. is a leading child care and nutrition agency in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1978, Clarendon has had a profound impact on the health, wellness and education of thousands of children in the greater areas of Lowell, Lawrence, Springfield and Boston).<\/p>\n<p>We support our licensed, professional educators to establish their home-based family child care businesses that enable parents to work and provide emotional and financial stability for their families.<\/p>\n<p>Our commitment to children and families is to provide quality enriched, safe, nurturing, culturally sensitive environments that offer children many meaningful hands-on learning experiences where they can explore their interests and strengths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our goal to provide professional family child care services to facilitate the efforts of all parents working to improve their family&#8217;s quality of life and to ensure a safe, nurturing environment to enhance the growth and development of each child for whom we provide services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClarendon Early Education Services, Inc. providers are licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care to care for children in their licensed family child care programs.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amparo-and-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-198 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amparo-and-London.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amparo-and-London.jpg 480w, https:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amparo-and-London-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amparo-and-London-430x573.jpg 430w, https:\/\/clarendonearlyeducationservices.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Amparo-and-London-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>What We Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Clarendon provides a year-round, full-day educational child development program for\u00a0children ranging in age from birth to 13 years.<\/li>\n<li>We provide culturally-sensitive support in diverse languages such as Spanish, Khmer, Portuguese, Vietnamese and English.<\/li>\n<li>We help income-eligible parents to access Child Care Financial Assistance\u00a0by facilitating child care Voucher and Contracted Care services funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eec.state.ma.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Early Care and Education (DEEC)<\/a>. Child Care Vouchers assist parents with reduced child care costs during transition and are authorized by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massresources.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts\u2019 Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/li>\n<li>We ensure quality Early Childhood Education by providing Professional Development\u00a0opportunities to our Providers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"mission\">Clarendon\u2019s Mission<\/h2>\n<p>To provide quality, culturally sensitive and affordable child care services.<\/p>\n<p>To promote small business opportunities for women and men in the Mass. Family Child Care industry<\/p>\n<p>To promote quality of care and to enhance professionalism in Early Childhood Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarendon Early Education Services, Inc. is a leading child care and nutrition agency in Massachusetts. 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