General Info:
Community Day Care & Enrichment (CDC) is a private non-profit organization established in 1969. Our mission is to provide quality, affordable, and reliable child care in a developmentally appropriate, safe and loving, learning environment with a committed, experienced staff. We are centrally located in the heart of downtown Billings and are proud to say that we truly represent the Billings community as a whole. Our goal is to provide quality childcare and early childhood education to children of all backgrounds and financial situations. However, we do have a very high percentage of single-parent, low-income families enrolled. We accept the Best Beginnings State Financial Assistance and also have a Tuition Assistance Program for those that do not qualify for the state assistance.
Each age group has their own area with age appropriate and developmentally appropriate toys, activities and scheduled curicullum. The rooms are separated into the following groups: infants/crawlers (6 weeks-24 months), Tiny Tot's (24 months-30 months), Big Tot's (30 months-36 months), Preschool - (3 years), PreK-2 (3 & 4 years) and PreK-1 (4 & 5) with additional summer program for the school age children.
CDC provides a safe and healthy learning environment. We recognize that each child is an individual and has different ways in which they learn and grow. We achieve our goals through a combination of structured lesson plans, hands-on experiences and play. Play gives children the opportunity to develop personal relationships, provides opportunity for mastering the environment and integrating the roles of family. It also provides freedom, spontaneity, and confidence in the ability to learn and builds values of society while building self-esteem.
All of this is achieved through a teaching staff dedicated to provide growth for the whole child and committed to working within each child's comfort zone to ensure optimal social, emotional, spiritual, physical and educational r