Licensed Child Care

Before and After School Child Care Programs

Mercy Neighborhood Ministries is a Level 2 Keystone Star Program and is working to achieve Level 3 by May 2012.

For 18 years, Mercy Neighborhood Ministries has been providing children in the Tioga community with a safe, structured and caring environment rich with opportunities to help them grow, thrive, and reach their greatest potential. This allows their parents to work as well as to attend the classes provided that will enhance their employment status.

The children that attend our programs are ages 4 through 12 years, predominantly African American, and from low-income families typically headed by single mothers. We offer homework, tutoring and enrichment services to the families in our neighborhood.

Our goal is to create a positive and enthusiastic attitude toward learning by offering computer programs, educational field trips, and arts and craft activities that support the present school curriculum. The Program is able to encourage the development of fundamental learning skills that so many low- income, urban children have not been exposed to in school or in their homes.

Children’s progress and program quality are systematically monitored with validated assessment tools. Teachers and the Program Director document program strengths, identify areas for improvement, and develop an appropriate professional development plan.

Children are regularly observed to record their needs and interests, and teachers write daily lesson plans to support the development of individual children and the class as a whole. Systematic training is built around a consistent curriculum model.

Pre K Head Teacher Description- Pre K Head Teacher Position Description

Non- Discrimination Policy: Services - Civil rights 2011

Non-Discrimination Policy: Staff- Civil Rights STAFF2011 

Limited English Proficiency Policy Statement- LEP 2011

Childcare Parent Handbook 2012- Parent Handbook