Friends Of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc

Under contract with the nyc department of education, the friends of crown heights educational centers, inc., operates an extensive family child care network (fccn) supporting high-quality care and education for children aged 6 weeks to 3 years old in 140 licensed provider homes throughout the boroughs of brooklyn and queens. With a current enrollment of more than 800 children in these affiliated provider homes, our mixed-age family child care programs are grounded in a holistic approach that ensures the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of every child are met. Affiliated providers are supported with instructional resources, coaching and hands-on program monitoring by our expert professional staff.

The friends of crown heights educational centers, inc. Is a new york state-contracted sponsoring agency of the federally funded child and adult care food program (cacfp), a nutrition education and meal reimbursement program helping providers serve nutritious and safely prepared meals and snacks to children in licensed child-care settings. Through this program, we directly support a network of 285 group and family child care providers for whom we administer reimbursements and deliver nutritional training and other technical supports. These providers together serve a combined population of 3,065 children in the city of new york. As a cacfp sponsoring agency, the organization ensures that all meals served by participating providers meet minimum guidelines established by the u.s. Department of agriculture (usda). For example, breakfast requires a serving of milk, fruit or vegetable and bread or a grain product. Lunch and dinner must include a selection of milk, bread or grain product, meat or meat alternate, and two different servings of fruits and/or vegetables. Snacks include servings from two of the four main components: milk, fruits or vegetables, bread or grain product, or meat or meat alternate. Serving nutritious meals helps improve and maintain the health and nutritional status of children in child care and pre-school settings and helps young children develop good eating habits. The organization delivers the technical support and administrative oversight required to ensure that providers in this network meet the federally mandated nutritional standards of the program and obtain appropriate reimbursement for expenses incurred.

A)compass & sonyc afterschool programs under the contract with the nyc department of youth and community development, the friends of crown heights educational centers, inc. Currently operates a total of five elementary (compass) and middle school (sonyc) afterschool programs serving a combined population of 371 students in a mixture of both school-based and center-based settings. Of these, 226 are elementary students (5-12 years old), and 145 are middle school students (12-13 years old). At the elementary level, these programs provide students with homework assistance and structured recreational and enrichment activity; at the middle school level, they function as a pathway to success by offering participants a choice on how they spend their time, and providing them with opportunities to explore and develop their interests in sports, art, civic leadership and community service. Our compass and sonyc afterschool curriculum is based on the steam concept, under which participants engage in activities that promote their understanding and appreciation of science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Among the activities offered are robotics, violin lessons, creative writing, table tennis, computer coding, website design and visual art.