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Yale Families Welcome New Child Care Center

   
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Jenny Tang, shown here with her mom, Lin Feng, and dad, Hong Tang, assistant professor, Electrical Engineering, was one of 150 children of Yale faculty, staff, and student parents who attended the Grand Opening Celebration of the Bright Horizons Child Care Center at Yale's West Campus in May.

Twenty-five new enrollments have taken place since Yale's announcement on May 14 that a new child care center for staff, faculty, and student parents is open and enrolling children on West Campus. Licensed for 144 children, the child care center was formerly Bright Horizons at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, which provided high-quality care for children of Bayer employees from 1998 to 2007.

Bright Horizons, which will be operating the Center, offers full-time and part-time care, Monday through Friday, for infants, toddlers, and pre-school aged children. They are now accepting enrollment for all age groups, including summer camp for pre-school and school-aged children. Priority enrollment will be available for children of Yale University staff, faculty, and students. Operating hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the year-round program.

The Grand Opening Celebration of the new center took place on May 17. Yale's Nancy Creel, deputy director of Human Resources, and Susan Abramson, coordinator, WorkLife and Child Care, cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony. Approximately 150 children attended the celebration in addition to expectant parents and many visitors' extended family members.

Bright Horizons partners with organizations and employers of all sizes across every industry to deliver high-quality child care. Other universities that currently have Bright Horizons child care centers include John Hopkins University, Duke University, and Cornell University. To learn more about Bright Horizons, you can visit their website at www.brighthorizons.com.

The Bright Horizons Child Care Center at Yale's West Campus is located at 117 Frontage Road, Orange, CT, exit 41 off of Interstate 95. For specific information on the placement process, pre-enrollment, the registration form, and tuition, visit http://centers.brighthorizons.com/yalewestcampus/ or contact Jodi Chevarella, director of the center, at 203-795-3564.

Other child care centers at Yale University are:

  • Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kitty Lustman Findling Kindergarten serving children 3 years through kindergarten
  • Edith B. Jackson Child Care Center, Inc. serving children 3 months through 5 years
  • Phyllis Bodel Childcare Center at the Yale School of Medicine serving children 6 weeks through kindergarten
  • YLS Early Learning Center serving children 3 months through 3 years

For information on these and other area child care programs, go to www.yale.edu/worklife/childcare or call Susan Abramson at 432-8069.