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Any suggestions for good quality, affordable child care?
05/28/2013 11:47 PM by John M
I have an 18 month old and I just moved here from Virginia Beach. I just got a job so any information to help would be wonderful. Thank you so much.
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I would actually love to hear answers to this too, particularly for infants because (though my kid isn’t born yet) I wasn’t able to find anything without a lengthy waitlist.
Contact the Child Care Aware program out of ChildSavers (200 North 22nd Street).
http://childsavers.org/ChildCareReferrals.htm
I have been very happy with A Blooming Child Petite Academy in Jackson Ward. It’s located at the corner of Clay and Brook. $40/day and children can go full-time (5 days a week) or part-time. My son is 21 months and has been going there since he turned 1.
Melissa Terranova, Center Director/Owner, abloomingchild@yahoo.com
Center phone number: 804-344-0072
Melissa’s Cell: 804-517-1486
I recently toured the Friends building on 26th Street, and was amazed. They are doing something wonderful there.
We love 2PCCC on 5th St. downtown. It was previously 16mo + but starting this week, it will be 6mo +. http://www.2pccc.org
Just wanted to follow up on this and add this article from the Times-Dispatch that addresses the childcare drought:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/day-care-a-challenge-as-more-parents-settle-in-richmond/article_a3d5a01a-7fc8-5917-90e7-e9cbb4ac7f2c.html
We still don’t know where my kid is going, and we’ve got less than three weeks. I’ve been on the waiting lists for both A Blooming Child and the Northside Family Learning Center since January, and there is still no space available and won’t be until 2014. I’m now on the waiting list for Friends on 26th St., John — thanks for recommending it. But they, too, have no space for an infant — likely until the winter. As far as I can tell, there is no daycare that will take our kid within this city.
Tess, I just noticed a big banner on the Second Presbyterian Church Childcare Center, says “Now enrolling ages 6 mos. to 7 yrs.” Phone 804-649-0152 and the website is http://www.2pccc.org – hope that helps, don’t know how old your wee one is. I saw the sign today and pulled over to write down the information. And someone here has already posted that they like it (#5).