The Children's Center

About Us:

The Children’s Center is a 134 capacity group child care and school age program in Methuen, Massachusetts. We are committed to providing quality care for children ages 4 weeks to 12 years. We are leaders in the Early Childcare and Education. We are open daily 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. We are a year round child care and provide half day programs for school age children throughout the school year and full day throughout the summer and during school vacations.

At The Children’s Center, our program is designed to provide a loving, warm, nurturing, and safe environment for all children. Each child is viewed as a unique person with an individual pattern and timing of growth and development. The curriculum and teacher interactions are responsive to individual differences in ability and interest. Different levels of ability, development and learning styles are expected, accepted and used in planning activities that promote children’s self esteem and positive feelings towards learning. Our environment and classroom materials are set up to optimize each child’s learning. Social, physical, emotional, creative, language, and cognitive growth transpire through child-initiated, teacher-supported play and a variety of integrated activities and interest areas that they prepare. Children participate in whole group and individual activities that are planned, spontaneous, child initiated and teacher directed. The Children’s Center is an ongoing ministry of the Christ United Methodist Church of Lawrence and is a self-supporting, non-profit, and ecumenical adhering to the Judeao-Christian ethics and traditions with multi-ethnic awareness.

Our staff at The Children’s Center are highly nurturing, meet and exceed all EEC qualifications and are all certified in CPR and First Aid. All of our teaching staff follow the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and NAEYC’s developmentally appropriate curriculum for all children at their individual learning level. Staff are very sensitive to all children’s needs and are caring and nurturing. We are very proud of our staff’s abilities to promote healthy learning experiences for all children.

Meal Program:

Our center participates in the USDA Food Program. Being part of this program allows us to provide nutritional meals for all the children at our center for no additional cost to families. The children are served breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. Being able to provide nutritional meals for your child is one way that we can teach children good eating habits which will last a lifetime.

Transportation:

The Children’s Center has our own transportation department and can provide transportation services for your child if needed. This service is available for morning, afternoon and pick up at local schools for your school age children. We service all of Methuen and Lawrence MA.