Ready… Set… Grow… Childcare

Education Starts Before the Classroom – Early Childhood Development

Northeast Kingdom Learning Services, Inc. (NEKLS) opened Ready, Set, Grow Childcare in September of 2019. We are licensed for 98 children and provide care year round for infants (6 weeks old) to school age (up to age 12).

Our childcare is located in the old Teddy Bear Factory in Newport, Vermont which we renovated in collaboration with Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA) Head Start program and with support from a Make Way for Kids grant from Let’s Grow Kids, a business loan from Vermont Community Loan Fund and generous donations of $10,000 each from local employers North Country Hospital and Casella Waste Management and from the Newport Rotary Club.

 

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Childcare Center in Newport, VT

Contact Us: 1-802-732-3855

Bringing this childcare center to the area was a transformational project that leveraged multiple partners including NEKLS Children’s Integrated Services, and Kingdom Children’s Museum to create a spectacular center that earned 4 STARS in Vermont’s Childcare Rating System the week before the Coronavirus pandemic started. We are committed to working towards our 5 STARS, however, that work has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Our childcare center is also a teaching center for students interested in entering the field of early care and education. We have successfully operated a Step Up to Childcare course that takes a participant through all of the required training to be able to be entry level for childcare, in addition to learning about their own character strengths, what a growth mindset is, and interpersonal skills for the workplace.

This program has been offered in collaboration with Community College of Vermont, Newport, North Country Career Center, our local adult technical center, and Adult Education and Literacy (provided by NEKLS). The first cohort had paid internships in several local childcare centers.

You can reach Ready…Set…Grow at 1-802-732-3855.