New Rochelle, NY – Leaders and parents from the New Rochelle Day Nursery will address the uncertain futures their center and families face if Westchester County is successful in increasing the family share for subsidized child care to 35%.
The New Rochelle Day Nursery was established in 1895, the first licensed child care center in all of New York. Over its history, the program has served thousands of area families, enabling parents to work while their children were receiving early education experiences preparing them for school. Board members Jeanie Miller, President, and Dolores Thompson, Recording Secretary, along with Executive Director Sabrina Delgardo, will address their fears about the future of the center, if the family share increase is implemented.
According to Kathy Halas, Executive Director of the Child Care Council of Westchester, who will also speak at the press conference, the anxiety felt by the New Rochelle Day Nursery leaders is real and pervasive throughout the county’s child care sector. “Once parents and child care programs started to receive official notice of the family share increase to 35%, and the reality of this hike struck home, we heard genuine panic from all over the county. New Rochelle Day Nursery and other child care businesses not only get children ready for school, they support working parents and they are employers themselves. The 35% family share prices child care out of reach of many hard-working Westchester families and diminishes opportunities for their children.”
WHO: Jeanie Miller, President of the New Rochelle Day Nursery Board of Directors; Dolores Thompson, Recording Secretary of the New Rochelle Day Nursery Board of Directors; Sabrina Delgardo, Executive Director; two families with children enrolled at the Nursery; Kathy Halas, Executive Director, Child Care Council of Westchester.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 10 am
WHERE: New Rochelle Day Nursery, 115 Clinton Ave, New Rochelle, NY, 10801, (914) 632-2093