The Great Strides Early Childhood Center at 833 Michigan Avenue is available to offer daycare to employees of Roswell Park Cancer Institute. You can visit their website here: http://www.greatstridesecc.com.

Great Strides is a not-for-profit child care center that was formerly known as the Early Childhood Center at Roswell Park. The Center opened in 1982 and has been cited as a model of quality, affordable child care in this area.

The Center, located on the second floor of the Reverend Dr. Bennett W. Smith, Sr. Family Life Center on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, offers age-appropriate childcare for ages six weeks through school-age and has access to a cafeteria, gymnasium and opened new playgrounds in 2007. 

For information and applications, please contact the Center.

 

The Faculty

The Center is staffed by well-trained, compassionate, experienced individuals who are sensitive to the special developmental needs of each child. Each classroom has a head teacher and an assistant teacher. Teachers continually seek to improve Center activities and programs through staff meetings, educational seminars and workshops, discussions with parents, and self-assessment. Aides, student interns and foster grandparents enhance the individual attention given to each child.

The Program

The Center meets the physical, cognitive and social/emotional needs of children, ages six weeks through five years, in a happy, safe, multicultural environment. The staff works in teams to develop daily plans for structured/unstructured, indoor/outdoor, and large/small group activities.

Parent-teacher conferences are held annually and individual conferences can be arranged by parents. Infant reports are issued daily.