Volunteer Spotlight: Making mini piñatas with Jessica
This summer, Early Care and Education began hosting a new internship collaboration with two community organizations: Partners in Careers and Summer Works! Some of our [...]
Volunteer Spotlight: Hough Early Learning Center welcomes the Music Man!
For over 3 years now, the infamous Music Man Steve has been visiting Hough Early Learning Center weekly to play music and lead interactive songs [...]
1-2-3 Grow and Learn program featured in Camas Washougal Post Record
Reed Ebeling (left), Erin Ebeling and Susan Bennett of General Federation of Women's Clubs Camas-Washougal during a recent 1,2,3 Grow and Learn session at [...]
Preschoolers at Burton Early Learning Center Have Fun with Hygiene
In late March, Burton Early Learning Center had a guest volunteer come visit one of the preschool classrooms. She is a local RN who came [...]
Hathaway ECEAP Center Celebrates Dr. Seuss’s Birthday
Last week we celebrated Dr. Seuss’s 115th Birthday! Our Hathaway ECEAP center welcomed their new classroom volunteer to come play and read some of his [...]
Senator Patty Murray introduces bill to address child care crisis
Finding high-quality, affordable child care & early learning is becoming increasingly difficult for millions of working families across the country. The cost of child care [...]
Why affordable child care is so hard to find: Southwest Washington’s Child Care Crisis
On April 4, 2018 Senator Patty Murray visited ESD 112's Hough Early Learning Center to learn more about the parent perspective on the difficulty of [...]
Senator Patty Murray visits Hough Early Learning Center to learn how the child care crisis is affecting families in Southwest Washington
As Senator Patty Murray entered the Hough Early Learning Center she was greeted with smiling preschoolers and a welcome sign speckled with the colorful handprints of [...]
Two devoted early education teachers come together in one innovative classroom
Heather Anderson and Joe Chamberlain love their jobs. “At what other job do you get to go play all day?” says Anderson. “I can’t imagine [...]
ESD 112 receives $1.6 million grant to serve local families in center-based Early Head Start program
Educational Service District 112 has been notified that it is the recipient of a $1.6 million federal grant to fund child care center-based Early Head [...]
Free preschool from ESD 112 changed this single mom’s life
Ashley Horn is a young, single mother of four kids under the age of 12 living in Vancouver. In the last year she's gone from [...]
When school closures happen, ESD 112 Early Care team is ready with child care alternatives
The possibility of a work stoppage in Evergreen Public Schools the last week of August sent the ESD 112 teams of the Southwest Child Care Consortium [...]
