Preschool

New York State Pyramid Model

The New York State Council on Children and Families leads the statewide implementation of the Pyramid Model, an evidence-based, multi-tiered framework designed to foster social-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and young children through nurturing environments, strong relationships, and targeted supports. It equips early childhood programs, providers, and families with training, coaching, and data-informed strategies to promote positive behaviors and reduce challenging behaviors in young learners.

Teaching Improves Performance

Teaching Improves Performance delivers professional development tailored for early childhood professionals. Offering both live and virtual training, their goal is to make teaching more effective and less stressful. Guiding children through the stages of early childhood development is demanding. Teaching Improves Performance is here to lessen the stress. Their enthusiastic trainers and coaches are waiting to help with your professional development needs.

QUALITYstarsNY

QUALITYstarsNY is New York State’s voluntary 5-Star Quality Rating & Improvement System (QRIS) for child care programs designed to elevate early childhood education and care programs.

Play ADK Clubhouse

The Clubhouse is our temporary outpost, located at 84 Main Street in Saranac Lake, where we host activities and programming, experiment with future exhibit ideas, and share project updates with the community. The Clubhouse features a mini play kitchen, a ball pit, a cozy reading nook, bubbles, chalk, a coloring/craft station, Legos, Magnetix, puzzles and games, a parent lounge area, and more! They host infant/toddler playgroups and free play on Saturdays as well as developmental screenings.

Adirondack Community Action Programs, Inc.

Adirondack Community Action Programs, Inc. connects people, values and resources to promote personal, economic and community growth. They are the Child Care Resource Center for Essex County and provide Head Start and Early Head Start programming. The agency mobilizes resources, plans and integrates programs and services that best meet the needs of our community. Expanding beyond its original mission the agency works to improve the quality of life of families and strengthen our communities by coordinating multiple programs and resources.

Southern Adirondack Child Care Network

SACCN is a child care resource center dedicated to strengthening the quality of early care and learning by helping parents find regulated child care options, supporting providers with training and startup assistance, and assisting employers and the community with child care needs.

Business Navigator

The Business Navigator provides business leaders with key strategies that they can use to support caregivers, along with tools to support implementation. Employers in New York State who are seeking to deliver a child care strategy that focuses on the specific needs of their employees, and provides a strong return on their investments, will find the essential resources, case studies, and regional contacts to begin this process, or augment a plan already in place.

Joint Council for Economic Opportunity

The Joint Council for Economic Opportunity (JCEO) of Clinton and Franklin Counties, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the dignity and self-reliance of low-income individuals by providing comprehensive services such as Head Start programs, senior care, food assistance, medical transportation, and housing support. Established in 1966, JCEO operates multiple community outreach and Head Start centers across the region to serve the needs of the community effectively. ​

Hudson Headwaters

Providing comprehensive maternal health services, including gynecological and obstetrical care for adolescents and adults, pediatric and adolescent health services, delivering primary care for young people from birth through their teenage years across multiple locations

ADK Diaper Bank

ADK Diaper Bank collects and distributes diapers to families in New York’s North Country. The mission of ADK Diaper Bank is to ensure that no child in our community goes without clean diapers—a basic necessity for the healthy development of babies and toddlers.

Adirondack Regional Technology Center/TRAID Center (Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities)

The ARTC is one of twelve Regional TRAID Centers (RTC’s) operating within the State of New York. The goal of the program is to improve access to, and acquisition of, assistive technology devices and services for persons with disabilities of all ages and all disabilities. Services seek to enable persons with physical and/or cognitive disabilities to choose, acquire, and use appropriate assistive technology that advances their individual interests and independent functioning.