In partnership with the community, the Bellingham Childcare & Learning Center, a non-profit corporation, provides high quality, affordable childcare to families of all income levels, assisting low-income families to become self sufficient. Our well qualified, nurturing staff offers a developmentally appropriate and safe learning environment for young children.
Bellingham Childcare & Learning Center is a licensed, private non-profit 501 (c) (3) agency, dedicated to providing affordable care of the highest quality for young children while their parents work or receive training for work. Operating on a sliding fee scale, BCLC serves 72 children daily, ages 1 month to 5 years.
Bellingham Childcare & Learning Center is a licensed, private non-profit 501 (c) (3) agency, dedicated to providing affordable care of the highest quality for young children while their parents work or receive training for work. Operating on a sliding fee scale, BCLC serves 72 children daily, ages 1 month to 5 years.
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About Us
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The BCLC staff is qualified in child development skills and possesses the ability to relate positively and openly to children, parents, and other staff members. Our staff is selected according to their personal qualities of warmth and empathy. BCLC has a continuous staff-training program that further develops these qualities and gives the staff specific childcare skills and knowledge that they require.
Classrooms
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Each room incorporates the needs and developmental materials for the age of the children assigned that room. As you would at home, we provide age appropriate toys and facilities within each room. The number of staff members assigned to each room is based upon guidelines from the state and depends largely upon the number of children in the specific room.
Caterpillar Room
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The Caterpillar Room is for infants between one and twelve months of age. There are two caregivers with a maximum of eight infants. The Caterpillar Room specializes in individual care. Babies are fed on demand and take naps according to their own schedules. As a parent, you will receive a daily report noting when you child slept, ate, and was changed.
Ducklings Room
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The Ducklings Room serves children between 12 and 24 months of age, although this may vary depending on each child's development. There are three caregivers with a maximum of 12 toddlers. Play activities are designed to encourage stimulation in fine and gross motor development and positive social and emotional interactions.
Dinosaurs and Koalas Room
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The preschool classrooms at BCLC are composed of children 3 years to 5 years of age. In multi-age classrooms children have opportunities to nurture and model skills for younger children, be nurtured and encouraged by older peer models, participate in more complex activities with older peers, and develop at their own pace knowing that there are a variety of developmental expectations in the classroom not just one.
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