A Day With Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center
July 15, 2008
This weekend I had a great opportunity to spend time with some of the kids from the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center in California. They had a fundraiser car wash, and I was honored to help them wash cars for the day and raise money for their trip to the UC Santa Cruz campus this summer.
These kids are awesome and the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center provides a great deal of support to the community, both in kid’s education and fun.
Here is more information from the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center:
The Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center provides quality early childhood education and care to 140 children, ages 3 month to 12 years, and family support services to their low- and moderate-income families.
The services we provide enable the parents to begin to achieve economic self-sufficiency through employment and training. The Center has been providing quality child care services to the Marin community since 1973. Over the years, hundreds of parents have received quality childcare that has allowed them to receive job training, obtain employment, create their own businesses and become productive citizens of this community. Many of them have left welfare dependency to become wage earners and tax payers.
Providing quality child care and education services to young children also has long term benefits for the children as well as for their parents and our community. Studies have demonstrated that children who receive quality care and education as infants, toddlers and preschoolers, such as provided by the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center, do better in their school careers, have less behavioral and social problems, get into less difficulty with the legal and justice systems and are more likely to hold jobs after school than similar children who have not had such services.
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