It will be a mobile unit adjacent to our facility and will house printed materials on a variety of child-rearing topics for parents. Graduate student Shannon Haley serves as parent support coordinator for development of the resource center. As a lab setting for the university s Child and Family Studies majors, the center provides field experiences for approximately 200 students each semester. They are involved in observation, participation or student teaching under the direction of the center s 10 full-time teachers. Operated through the School of Family and Consumer Sciences, a division of the College of Health and Human Sciences, the center provides child care for children age 6 weeks to school age.
Tuition is based on a sliding fee scale that is determined by the child s age and family income.