Acting for a Better World: Our Place

Our
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Only in the last decade or so have daycare centers for homeless childern begun to appear. While the number of centers is growing, they remain few and far between. The day-care centers listed here work exclusively with homeless childern. Additionally, many homeless shelters provide some form of day care for the childern of their clients. Call (800) 424-2246 to get the number of a referral agency in your area.

Our Place Daycare
Seattle, Washington
(206) 328-5724

Cuidando Los Ninos
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(505) 843-6899

Opened in 1989, Cuidando Los Ninos has been the capacity to care for twenty-six childern. Because many of the childern are victims of abuse as well as homeless, the day-care center keeps a full-time play therapist on staff. In addition, the center provides counseling and links to other support services for the parents. Like Our Place, Cuidando Los Ninos will continue to care for a child until the family is back on its feet, and also has a long waiting list of childern wanting to enroll.

Vogel Alcove
Dallas, Texas
(214) 565-9706

A project of the Dallas Jewish Coalition for the Homeless, Vogel Alcove began caring for childern in 1986. Its twenty-one staff members and dozens of volunteers watch over 102 childern, all residents of thirteen area shelters. While the average length of time a child is enrolled is sixteen weeks, a child may stay at the Alcove as long as the family continues to reside at the shelter.