About
A Message from our Executive Director…
Every day young children begin a journey of discovery with their imagination and curiosity. As a provider of early childhood education, it is the environment, strategies, procedures, and policies that we establish and put into place, that facilitate that journey to reach its full potential. At the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, young children from the ages of eighteen months to four years are provided with a learning environment that is safe, and engaging. Developmental growth is supported by instilling habits and traits that young children need to navigate the world they find themselves in, and the rich literacy world that is before them. Each young child that enters our doors has an internal and external “voice”; it is how we listen to that “voice” that allows us to engage them in the learning process. I am proud to be leading the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center and working with our exemplary teachers, staff, and Board of Directors. For 50+ years, the Center, formerly East Hampton Day Care, has supported year-round working families with young children. Today, we are the only non-profit, licensed childcare center on the east end providing affordable, high-quality early education and full-day childcare for children ages 18 months to 4 years old - 10 hours a day, 12 months a year. - Tim Frazier, Executive Director
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The Center
The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center is a fully licensed Childcare Center by the State of New York under the guidance of the Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS).
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Our Partners
The Center partners with the Yale Child Study Center and SUNY Old Westbury in the development of parent & caregiver engagement with the program.
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Our Curriculum
Our comprehensive, research-based social emotional curriculum cultivates every child’s innate abilities and interests at each stage of their development.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support working families in our socially and economically diverse community:
By providing a comprehensive, nurturing, and research-based early childhood education for children 18 months to five years, that fosters social, emotional, intellectual, linguistic, and physical development. Our program addresses the needs of each individual child, preparing them for critical life transitions, a future of positive mental health, and a lifelong passion for learning.
By seeking out and engaging innovative public and private sector partnerships that expand and enhance our ability to support working families.
The Philosophy
We believe in:
Innate Strengths: every child has certain strengths and innate desires to learn, explore, and create, and that each needs to be nurtured and encouraged;
Investment: in the importance of investing in the early years of education in order to prepare each child for future academic and life successes;
Caring: that children are best served by caring, well-trained early education professionals;
Partnership: In partnering with parents;
Love of Learning: That a full-day, year-round learning environment is the most beneficial way to instill the love of learning into the life of each child.
