The Center's mission is to:
Provide Quality child care and to be responsive to the child care needs of the seacoast region. Give priority for services to children from families who are financially, socially or behaviorally in need. To take a leadership role in advocacy and collaboration for child and family issues.

Description:
The Community Child Care Center is a private, non-profit organization that has been providing quality child care since 1967. The center has provided a loving, nurturing and stimulating educational environment for thousands of children from the Main-New Hampshire Seacoast. For several decades the center has been far more than just a quality child care center.
It has also provided excellent, developmentally appropriate early childhood education and is staffed with highly qualified professionals who motivate and challenge children to imagine, create, achieve and learn and strive for personal success.
The Center's budget is derived from grants, parent tuition's, government funding, fund raising, United Way, City of Portsmouth Funding and Community Development Block Grant Monies.
Community Child Care Center provides high quality, affordable child care to families who live or work in Portsmouth. The Center is open year round, serving children ages 8 weeks to 12 years. Full and part-time care is available from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

At CCCC, children grow and develop in a curriculum that enhances each child's self esteem. We believe that young children learn best through play, and that play creates a love of learning that will last a lifetime. Through positive interactions with peers and adults, children develop social skills and self-expression. We encourage them to take pride in themselves, their family and their culture. Through positive experiences, children develop a tolerance and understanding of individual differences, and they learn the importance of cooperation, sharing and standing up for the rights of others as well as their own.

Children develop an awareness of their emotions through responsive adult interaction and they learn to identify and express their feelings and perceptions. Teachers foster friendships and empathy among children. Children are given many choices throughout their day, which promotes initiative, autonomy, creativity and self-confidence.

Children develop their physical skills and awareness through indoor and outdoor play. Our indoor and outdoor playgrounds at the Community Campus allow us to offer a wide variety of fun activities, regardless of the weather. Children are encouraged and supported as they develop their physical skills and awareness of themselves and others.

Children's cognitive development is supported through play and our planned curriculum. Our teachers strive to create a stimulating environment that ignites children's curiosity and invites them to interact with materials and other people. We provide children with "hands-on" experiences that promote the development of observation, problem solving and language skills. Children are recognized for their efforts, "stick-to-it-iveness" and creativity in finding solutions to real problems.

History:
The Community Child Care Center has been in business since 1967. The center has moved several times to a wide variety of buildings and has worked with the local school district in order to run after school programs in two of the three local elementary schools. In 1998, Community Child Care Center moved into the Community Campus in Portsmouth, NH. The Community Campus is a facility owned and operated by the Foundation for Seacoast Health that consists of eight non-profit organization that work in collaboration to provide seacoast families with the support that they need.

Contact people:

Meredith Blowen, Family And Personnel Services Director, (phone), (email) Susan Chase, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Amie Cole, Office Manager, (phone), (email)

Address:

100 Campus Drive, Suite 20 Portsmouth, NH 03801 (See a map)

Directions:

From the North: Take Rt 16 South to the Portsmouth Traffic Circle. Take Rt 1 South. Go through the lights by Yoken's Restaurant (look for big neon whale). At the next light, turn Right. At stop sign, turn Left onto. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: COAST - Pick and Pay, 30 minute walk

Miscellaneous Information

Name of Executive Director (or equivalent) if not listed above:
	Susan Chase
Type of organization
	Nonprofit 501(c)3
Is your organization a Health and Human Service agency?
	Yes