The Fairfax-SanAnselmo Children's Center is in need of an volunteer to work with us on redesigning and implementing our website. We want to make it easier for our teachers here to add to and manipulate so that they can make updates and add pictures of the children when they want to. We also want to start using our website to help aid us in fundraising and fund development. The volunteer will work closely with staff to meet the needs of our Center.
The Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center provides quality early childhood education and care to 140 children, ages 3 month to 12 years, and family support services to their low and moderate income families. We are a fully subsidized center, funded by the California Department of Education. This means that parents have to be income eligible and show proof of need (working or in school).
The services we provide enable the parents to begin to achieve economic self-sufficiency through employment and training. The Center has been providing quality child care services to the Marin community since 1973. Over the years, hundreds of parents have received quality childcare that has allowed them to receive job training, obtain employment, create their own businesses and become productive citizens of this community. Many of them have left welfare dependency to become wage earners and tax payers.
Providing quality child care and education services to young children also has long term benefits for the children as well as for their parents and our community. Studies have demonstrated that children who receive quality care and education as infants, toddlers and preschoolers, such as provided by the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center, do better in their school careers, have less behavioral and social problems, get into less difficulty with the legal and justice systems and are more likely to hold jobs after school than similar children who have not had such services.
For more information, contact:
Erik Schweninger
Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center
199 Porteous Ave
Fairfax, CA 94949
415-454-1811, eschweni@comcast.net