About Us
Your Child Is in Great Hands
About Us
Welcome to Community Early Childhood Center, a non-profit childcare facility organized and run by a Board of Directors and Early Childhood Teachers. We have been a licensed center in Fort Dodge since 1971. The center collaborates with the Department of Health & Human Services, Childcare Collaborative of Iowa, Promise Jobs, Webster County Public Health and the Child and Adult Care Food Program in order to provide high quality childcare at an affordable rate to families in our community. Our facility is unique to all others, by helping the families financially that need it most, while providing top-quality care.
Community Early Childhood Center is proud to be a Level 2 on the Iowa Quality for Kids (IQ4K) rating scale. This is the new and revised voluntary childcare rating system in the state of Iowa. We are proud to say that we have recently qualified as a Level 2 and are looking forward to moving up on the IQ4K. By participating voluntarily in the IQ4K, we want to show parents and the community that we are committed to providing quality childcare and always working towards improving that quality.
Our Mission
The mission of Community Early Childhood Center is to provide a warm, nurturing, safe, and loving environment where self- concepts are enhanced, independence is encouraged, and individualities are respected.
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In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Philosophy
Community Early Childhood Center believes that children are our most valuable resource. We have the opportunity to influence who they will be someday. We can give them a safe, secure, positive learning environment where caregivers offer opportunities through their daily play and interactions to develop the emotional, physical, social and cognitive needs of each individual child.
We are open Monday – Friday 6:00am – 6:00pm
