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The Children's Learning Center Board of Directors Annual Meeting took place on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at 7:00 P.M. For further information, click here.

Thanks to strong community support, Children's Learning Center raised over $2,400 at the annual Family Fun Night and Raffle on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 at the day care center. The festivities included silent auctions and raffle drawings, family activities planned by CLC staff, and a hot dog supper in the classrooms.

Mike’s Auto & Truck, Hayes Body Shop, Sycamore Carpetland USA, Crum-Halsted Agency Inc., Edward Don & Company, Fox River Foods, Gordon Food Service, and CLC Board members provided event sponsorship. Volunteers from Circle K, CLC alumni, and members of Sycamore Rotary and Kishwaukee Kiwanis of DeKalb assisted with food service. Area merchants, services and sports teams donated over a hundred auction items and raffle prizes.

Children's Learning Center (CLC) earned a Star Level Three rating effective December 3, 2010 under the Quality Counts: Quality Rating System (QRS) initiative of the Illinois Department of Human Services. The QRS awards star levels, over and above the standards required for child care licensing, which programs serving assistance-eligible families can achieve by meeting specific quality criteria in every area from building and grounds to administrative practices.

In addition to the honor of a QRS certificate, the Center will receive higher daily reimbursement rates for eligible children. The three-star rating will support future advances in quality as it rewards the excellence CLC has already achieved.

Technical assistance, training and support are provided by Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C), our local Child Care Resource and Referral agency. As always, we are grateful for their dedication.

The CLC Board of Directors  held its Annual Meeting Wednesday evening October 20, 2010. The Board elected officers Diane Lizer, President; Jeff Myles, Vice President; Kim Barrios, Secretary; and Scott R. Erwin, Treasurer, for the current fiscal year.

Each year, CLC confers the Mandy Derrington Friend of the Child Award on a person or persons who act on behalf of children. The Board presented its 2010 award to the Friends of Children’s Learning Center, an organization whose members have provided support of all kinds since the Center was founded in 1968. Members Pat Lawes, Lynne Switzky and Donna Gable were present to accept the award.

Child care quality is linked to caregiver experience, and the CLC Board of Directors honors staff members for each five years of employment at the Center. Marty Maxstadt and Joe Perez were this year’s longevity award recipients.

Kelly Kohley won the President’s Award as this year’s distinguished staff member as selected by her peers. Ms. Kohley has the added distinctions of being both a CLC alumna and a second-generation employee: Kelly’s mother, Lynn, has taught at CLC in various capacities for thirty years.

The evening’s featured speaker was Emily Hummel, a counselor with the Kish Health System Employee Assistance Program. She presented a program entitled “Benefits of Self Care and Your Employee Assistance Program (EAP).”