Child care openings now avaialble in Holyoke and Chicopee! Please call 413-552-1559 for more information or to enroll.
Center-Based Child Care
VOC operates five child care centers in Holyoke and Chicopee for children ages 1-5. Our goal is to assist parents who are working, in training leading to employment, or have other special needs. We provide a complete education program, meals, opportunities for parent involvement, and after-school care (at Chicopee locations). All Center-Based classrooms are staffed by qualified Early Education teachers.
- Each center provides a full schedule of age-appropriate activities that promote child development and learning
- Activities include pre-kindergarten literacy, art, science, math, language development, large motor development and social development
- Teachers nurture children’s physical, cognitive, language and social-emotional development to ensure they are ready for school
- All classrooms follow The Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies GOLD
- Nutritious breakfasts, lunches and snacks are served daily
- Parents are welcome to visit and encouraged to participate in Center activities
- All Centers adhere to standards of the National Association for the Education of Young Children
General Eligibility
The Center-Based Child Care Program can serve any parent in Massachusetts who has a service need, is income eligible, and wants their child to attend one of our centers located in Chicopee or Holyoke. Parents who wish to pay privately, without a subsidy, are also welcome to participate.
Locations
Beaudoin Village Early Education & Child Care Center
Hours: 6:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
16 Barret Avenue
Holyoke, MA 01040
413-420-0107
Cabot Manor Early Education & Child Care Center
Hours: 6:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
106 Stonina Drive
Chicopee, MA 01013
413-594-3230
Churchill Homes Early Education & Child Care Center
Hours: 6:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
334 Elm Street
Holyoke, MA 01040
413-534-2480
Montgomery Street Early Education & Child Care Center
Hours: 6:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
374 Montgomery Street
Chicopee, MA 01020
Mt. Carmel Early Education and Child Care Center
Hours: 6:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
35 Mt. Carmel Avenue
Chicopee, MA 01013
413-533-6407
Transportation may be available to participants who:
- Live more than one-half (1/2) mile from the program
- Do not have access to a vehicle
- Do not have access to public transportation
- Have a verified and documented disability/special need that prevents them from transporting their child(ren)
- Have a work schedule that prevents them from transporting their child(ren) to or from care
Eligibility:
For Center-Based Child Care Tuition Assistance (must have one of the following service needs):
- Working 30+ hours
- Attending school part-time (6 credits) and working part-time (total school and work time must add up to at least 30 hours)
- Parent attending postsecondary education full time, or a full-time training program (12 credits)
- Parent attending high school
- Parent of a child with a documented special need
- Parent who is incapacitated
- Grandparent or foster parent who has custody of a child and is seeking to enroll her/him
Click on the program name below to learn more about the other child care services we offer:
Congratulations Vevelin Pabon, Educator of the Month for December, 2018.
Vevelin Pabon came from Puerto Rico speaking no English and had not set any career goals. Vevelin started with VOC Churchill on 5/21/2012 as a parent volunteer and then moved up to a uncertified substitute teacher. After completing a full year of ESL classes and English classes in order to get into HCC she then completed the Child Growth and Development course at HCC. This enabled Vevelin to become preschool certified teacher with us.
Vevelin continued her education at HCC as a full time student taking classes at night. Today she is 2 classes away from receiving her AS degree in Early Childhood Education. Vevelin is a person who is always willing to go above and beyond her job responsibilities. She comes in early and stays past her scheduled shift. Vevelin is warm, kind, caring and friendly all the time. She is an exceptional team player. Vevelin always has others in mind when lending a hand without expecting anything in return. If we are short staffed she tries her best to work in other classrooms before even being asked, if there are children who are having difficulties coming in, it takes nothing out of her to step in and help the parent, the child, or her co-workers. Vevelin continues to exceed in many areas, such as educational growth, classroom skills, and team building skills.