Mission

The mission of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Child Day Care Center is to provide full-day child care and learning opportunities for children in a secure and nurturing environment. The center pledges to serve the community by providing fully licensed care to children regardless of the families' financial resources, race, or religious affiliation. The center's professionally trained staff will continuously foster opportunities for the child's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth, with the goal of supporting children to become life-long learners.

Values

-Providing opportunities and support for children's physical, emotional, social and intellectual growth. 

-Providing learning opportunities that are age and individually appropriate, based on best practice and research on how children learn and develop.

-Providing real experiences and materials that allow children to acquire new knowledge about their world and each other.

-Providing activities that extend this learning through music, books, numbers, language, and conversation.

-Providing opportunities for children to practice what they are learning through dramatic play, art, dance, block play, cooking, role play, social interaction, and technology.

-Providing opportunities for children to be active, eat healthy snacks and meals, and rest.

-Ensuring teach observation and interaction with children to support their learning, to help them problem-solve, and learn to positively interact in a social world.

-Supporting communication between families and staff to better understand children's individual needs and growth, and provide resources to families, as needed.

-Being active in the community to support its economic growth and cultural diversity and using the community as a resource for supporting children and families. 

-Meeting state licensing standards, national guidelines, and other sources that identify best practices.