Children's Cottage

Children's Cottage provides a safe, clean, beautiful, and stimulating space for your baby. There is one teacher to 3 or 4 infants in this program. Parents communicate every morning about any special needs their infants may have on each particular day. Loving and caring teachers give each infant lots of stimulation, attention, and time. We provide the baby wipes and you provide the diapers. Since infants may be sensitive or allergic to certain foods, you provide us with everything your infant will eat or drink. When they go into the next group, we will provide healthy snacks at mid-morning and mid-afternoon. To constantly improve the quality and supervision at our Infant and Preschool center, Children's Cottage is a participant in the Program for Infant Toddler Care (PITC). This great program is collaboration between WestEd and the Child Development Division of the California Department of Education. This is a program where an Infant/Toddler Specialist (IT Specialist) comes to our center for hands-on training for a period of 10 to 18 months. The IT Specialist was at our center throughout 2011 to observe both the Infant & Preschool programs. She reported to her directors who used her input to improve the quality and supervision at our facility. Part of the philosophy of the PITC is "Designing safe, interesting, and developmentally appropriate environments." We have 8 teachers who completed the Program for Infant Toddler Care, receiving 64 hours of training and 80 hours of mentoring and coaching. They also received 4 Early Childhood Education (ECE) college units as well.