DAY CARE SERVICES
Port Richmond Day Nursery
Janilee Yanny, Director
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166 Lockman Avenue
Mariners Harbor 10303
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718-494-0400 |
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Hours:
M, T, W, Th, F: 8am–6pm
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 Since
1895, the Port Richmond Day Nursery has provided a caring and stimulating
preschool environment for 3-, 4-, and 5-year olds whose parents
are working, training for, or seeking employment or are incapacitated.
To be accepted into the PRDN, a family's income must be within guidelines
set by New York City.
Although these children may be considered economically disadvantaged,
they receive the most advantageous preschool experiences at the
Port Richmond Day Nursery. The children's intellectual, social,
emotional, and physical well-being is fostered by the nurturing,
yet spirited atmospheres of the three classrooms where they learn
and play with classmates of the same age.
Academic enhancement and individualized home projects further
prepare the kindergartners for their passage into first grade at
neighborhood schools.
Therapists from the Pouch Center provide personal on-site services
to assist children with minor disabilities such as delayed speech
or expressive language problems.
Parent participation and decision-making are essential components
of the Port Richmond Day Nursery philosophy, as well as a focus
on parent services. In collaboration with our Head Start program,
access to social services and a variety of training workshops are
helping caregivers reach their own educational, vocational, and
familial goals.
Head Start
Beryl S. Clark. M.A.,
Director and Vice President, Early Childhood Services
Hours - M, T, W, Th, F: 8:30am–4pm
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Dongan Hills
Head Start Center |
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44 Dongan Hills Avenue
Dongan Hills 10306 |
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718-987-7755 |
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| Kingsley
Head Start Center |
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10 Kingsley Place
New Brighton 10301 |
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718-442-6680 |
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Osgood
Head Start Center |
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16 Osgood Avenue
Stapleton 10304 |
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718-420-6138 |
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SIMHS's three full-service Head Start Centers serve more than 300
children (at any one time) between 3- and 5-years-old each year.
To be eligible for Head Start, a family's income must meet federal
poverty guidelines. There are no fees or tuition, and free transportation
is provided.
The nationally acclaimed,
award-winning curriculum focuses on school readiness, and gives
each child learning and playing experiences that prepare him or
her for school, academically, emotionally, and socially. Bi-lingual
teachers assist children for whom English is a second language.
Children are also provided with a wide range of health and social
services.
 To
support children in the development of skills critical to their
future school success, New York State-certified teachers and trained
assistant teachers work with parents to develop individual educational
plans that advance their child's readiness in all areas of cognitive
development including language and literacy, math, science, critical
thinking, and social living. Each child's social and emotional development,
health and nutrition, are also areas of focus. Parents receive detailed
reports of their child's progress three times during the school
year.
In collaboration with
the Society's Elizabeth W. Pouch Center for Special People, the
Integrated Preschool Classrooms at the Dongan Hills and
Osgood Avenue Head Start Centers provide educational and therapeutic
supports to children with special needs, who share one classroom
at each site with their normally developing peers.
 Head
Start parents receive a diverse variety of important child development
and support services including family skills workshops, health education,
social services, and job development through New York City's Work
Experience Program. A partnership with the College of Staten Island
offers parents adult education and English as a Second Language
classes at the Kingsley and Osgood Head Start Centers.
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