WELCOME

DICC best provides for our community need as we integrate family empowerment, learning environments, and community partnerships. We are a fully inclusive model which embraces all people who provide for children. Our priorities include: making positive connections with all families; intentional and culturally responsive teaching and curriculum; and accessing the learning environment as a teaching tool while continuing to use resources and other environments.

As an organization, we are committed to:

• Being a livable wage employer. We consistently strive to ensure that the people taking care of our children are compensated fairly for the precious work they do.
• Promoting equity and inclusion. This goal, which is crucial to our mission, includes our commitment to ensure that at least 50% of children in our care are from families eligible for subsidized childcare. We do not prioritize waitlist placements based on family financial resources.
• Affordable tuition rates for ALL children enrolled.

As educators we maintain our commitment “to create and maintain safe and healthy settings that foster children’s social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development and that respect their dignity and their contributions.” (NAEYC, 2011). With these core commitments to children, social emotional development is both impacted and reinforced in all aspects of our classrooms and programming at DICC.

DICC staff are proud to represent the children and families we serve from diverse backgrounds of race, ethnicity, language, class, gender identity, family constructs and abilities. As we play, we learn developmental and social skills which beneift our interactions in the world for years to come. At DICC, play and family connections build community.

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