Rockford Day Nursery Early Learning Center, Rockford

In 2010, 2013, and again in 2018, Rockford Day Nursery Early Learning Center received a Silver Circle of Quality from the Illinois Department of Human Services Quality Rating System. This earned RDN an enhanced reimbursement rate for all families who are eligible for child care assistance and helps us to further improve the child care quality we provide. RDN collaborates with Head Start to offer eligible preschoolers and their families access to enhanced social and cognitive development through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services. Head Start works hard to actively engage parents in their childrens learning and to help parents in making progress toward their education, literacy and employment goals. The needs of children cannot be fully served without also being concerned about the needs of the family and community in which they live. One of our main focuses is to help parents become inde-pendent, responsible members of society through work and/or training so that the family can become more financially stable and the children will see examples of success through work and education.