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Early Childhood Learning & Wellness Services

CPC's Early Childhood Learning & Wellness Services (ECLW), housed within CPC Manhattan Community Services, is a partner of the New York City Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) Consortium, serving families and child care providers throughout New York City.

ECLW provides education, referrals, coaching, technical assistance, health care consultation, infant and toddler services, mental health support, and professional development to strengthen the quality of early childhood education. Services are offered in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Korean by a multilingual and multicultural team.

Through funding from the NYC Department of Education, ECLW operates three Family Child Care (FCC) Networks in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. These networks help families access subsidized child care and connect them with high-quality family child care programs for children ages 6 weeks to 3 years. The FCC Networks also support providers through training, coaching, monitoring, and technical assistance to enhance program quality, responsive caregiving, and business sustainability. ECLW also administers the Promise NYC Child Care Assistance Program, funded by the NYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS), which supports families who are ineligible for federally funded child care assistance programs.

In addition to helping families navigate New York City's child care system, ECLW offers professional development, quality improvement coaching, grants, health care consultation, Medication Administration Training (MAT), infant and toddler specialist services, and mental health consultation to child care programs and educators.

Impact

Recent accomplishments include:

• Expanded funding from the NYC Department of Education, ACS, Robin Hood Foundation, Korean American Community Foundation, and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), allowing ECLW to broaden its services in four languages.
• One of the few organizations able to provide the 120-hour Child Development Associate (CDA) training in Chinese, along with on-site CDA examinations in Chinese.
• Served 8,757 community members and delivered 3,978 hours of intensive and assessment-based technical assistance to child care programs and early childhood educators.
• Provided health care consultation, Medication Administration Training, and mental health services to more than 153 child care programs and centers.

Support

ECLW is funded by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), NYC Department of Education, Administration for Children's Services (ACS), Robin Hood Foundation, and the Korean American Community Foundation (KACF).

For more information, visit www.childcarecpc.org.

Contact

Early Childhood Learning & Wellness Services
45 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002
Program contact: (212) 941-0030, ext. 812 for Sumon Chin
Family Child Care Network: Jessica Chen, ext. 852
Training: Matthew Li, ext. 819

CPC Brooklyn FCC Network at Brooklyn Community Center
4101 8th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11212

CPC Manhattan FCC Network at CPC One
45 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002

CPC Queens FCC Network at Queens Community Center
133-14 41st Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355