Family Enrichment Network

We are the Child Care Resource Center for Broome, Chenango, and Tioga Counties. Give us a call for your child care needs!

Have you heard? CCR&R is now CCRC – Child Care Resource Centers, providing high quality services and support to communities for over 40 years. Child Care Resource Centers provide referral services for families and businesses, professional development opportunities to child care providers, parent education, financial assistance resource, and more. Learn more and connect with your local Child Care Resource Center: https://conta.cc/3Mcgen7.

Join our Child Care Resource Center team!

Join us in our Pampered Chef fundraising initiative! FEN will receive up to 30% of the proceeds to support critical agency programming. Your purchase through this link and sharing it with friends and family will be greatly appreciated.

www.pamperedchef.com

It is now easier to get help paying for child care! Starting today, you can apply for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) online instead of at the local DSS.
Learn more on the OCFS website: https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/childcare/ccap/

Thank you to everyone who came to our Tioga Touch a Truck event today! It was a big success. And a big thank you to the community partners and staff who helped make this event a success!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Touch a Truck event today. And a special thanks to our community partners and staff for helping make this a success!

Come on out to the Touch a Truck event - now until 1pm!

Our 2nd Annual Touch a Truck is tomorrow, 7/16, from 10 am - 1 pm!

Starting on Wednesday, Family Enrichment Network will host a Kid's Farmers Market where famlies with children under the age of 18 can get free produce. Daily, Monday through Friday, from 8am until 12:30pm. July 17th through August 23rd.
Stop in at 24 Cherry Street, Johnson City, the basement cafeteria for free produce for children! 🥕🥒🥔

The free summer meal program for kids starts tomorrow!
Stop by our main office at 24 Cherry Street, Johnson City for free breakfast/morning snack from 8-8:30am and lunch from 11:30-12:30pm.

Don't forget tomorrow is the blood drive!
Help save a life by donating blood. 🩸

Thank you to the Johnson City Senior Center ladies for providing little dolls and blankets that they lovingly knit/crochet for our kinship families. We appreciate your partnership in giving love to the children in our kinship program! 💕

In Broome County on 6/17 and 6/18 there will be an Early Dismissal for Carlisle, Cherry St, Fayette, Saratoga, and Wilson. No Special Ed PM classes at these sites.

Your family advocate will contact with the time your child's classroom is closing

Staff are expected to report or take PTO.

Send a message to learn more

Family Enrichment Network and the American Red Cross are hosting an upcoming blood drive.

Please join our lifesaving mission and schedule an appointment today!

Drive Details:
Site: Family Enrichment Network
Address: 24 Cherry Street, Johnson City, NY, 13790
Room Name: GYM
Date: Tue Jul 2, 2024
Time: 08:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Blood Program Leader Name: Ashley Tomazin
Blood Program Leader Phone Number: 6077238313

Please help us meet our goals! Contact Ashley Tomazin with any questions at (607)723-8313 x862

The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime.

Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program!

www.redcrossblood.org

Interested in working in a child care center? Join this great opportunity!

Our Career Development Center is now recruiting for its next cohort to join this innovative program to prepare young adults for a job as a lead or assistant teacher in a participating early childhood program!

Here's how to get started: https://www.earlychildhoodny.org/cdsc/HECKSCHER_home.php

Participants receive:
✅ Full financial assistance for teacher certification fees (a value of up to $1,000)
✅ Advising, guidance and support from a dedicated career advisor
✅ Direct connection with our employment partners (including Academic Explorers, LLC, Brooklyn Kindergarten Society, Family Enrichment Network, Community Action Organization of Western New York, My Place: A Play and Learning Center, Ripen With Us Child Care, and Young Minds In Motion)

Kids and teens can get free, healthy summer meals nearby. No application or sign-up needed!

Call the Broome County Nutrition Outreach& Education Program (NOEP) to learn where summer meals are served. 607-723-8313 x 827

If you are still looking for summer care for your child, get a free copy of the Summer Program Directory to help you in your search. Request your copy here:

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There are so many issues with the child care system. Thank you Jim Ehmke for bringing attention to it!

If you want more information on the Child Care Assistance Program, please reach out to [email protected] or call 607-723-8313 ext. 829. If you want to start a child care business in your home, call 607-723-8313 ext. 826 or email [email protected].
Our Child Care Resource Center is ready to help you with all your child care needs!

Childcare staffing crisis closes classrooms The overdose epidemic isn’t the only crisis facing Greater Binghamton, the state and the country. Another is the lack of daycare, especially due to a childcare staffing crisis.

Today is National Child Care Provider Appreciation Day. Thank you to all the child care providers in our community!
Take time today to tell your child care provider, "thank you!"

Thank you to our nurses for all their hard work!

It's Teacher Appreciation Week!
We appreciate all our teachers! Thank you for all your hard work every day!

Save the Date for our Touch a Truck event in July!