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New Horizon Children's Center
The Center is strategically located in north Bismarck, the fastest growing area in this community. It is located near Horizon Middle School in the lower level of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church north campus, located on North Washington Street. The state-of-the-art facility will provide great spaces for 28 infants and toddlers and 44 preschoolers to grow and learn about the world. The Center will offer full-day and part-day programs with several spots saved for drop-in care needed by families when emergencies arise. Children flourish when the learning environment provokes curiosity and creativity! Contrary to many centers in our area that have been retrofitted into existing buildings, New Horizon Children’s Center was designed and built with the young child in mind. Attention to detail has gone into the plan from the bathrooms to the playground. The infrastructure includes specialty wiring to accommodate ever-expanding technological advances needed to provide on-going early learning assessments. The trend-setting vision of the building design features spaces where infants crawl with below floor heating systems, low windows for even the smallest child to peek outside and outdoor play spaces that work with the contour of the land and use native plants and rocks for natural exploration of the world by children of all ages and ability levels. The Center is the first of its kind in western North Dakota designed to serve as a model teaching and learning center for children as well as adults. With one-way windows, wireless speakers and a large upstairs meeting area/gymnasium wired with the latest technology, the Center will provide opportunities for observation by students, parents, licensors and health professionals. In addition, it will serve as a teaching lab for early childhood education students from the University of Mary and other colleges who are currently placed in locations around the city which are not designed for training. While eastern North Dakota has access to lab schools for training at the universities of NDSU and UND, there are currently no facilities designed to provide on-site training in western North Dakota. Quality Counts Research shows children flourish in quality early care and education settings. Quality is the primary focus of New Horizon Children’s Center. Children enrolled in child care for substantial hours each day, starting from the first months of life and continuing up to school entry, will spend 40 percent of their waking hours away from their parents. This half a childhood can be a source of nurturance, friendship and early learning through a quality program, or at worst, it can expose children to health and safety hazards and unresponsive supervision. Experts have determined that when high quality, reliable, child care and education is available in communities, children enter school ready to succeed, have a positive outlook on life, and develop skills that require less remediation in the future. With so many children in child care, let’s do it right might best describe the philosophy of New Horizon Children’s Center. Quality child care is not only needed so that good things will happen in the child’s future, but for the benefit of the community as a whole. It is needed because every child deserves the same human rights as senior citizens or individuals with disabilities—the right to be safe, to feel loved, to enjoy life and to become all they can be. Quality is the primary focus of New Horizon Children’s Center. Accessibility is seen in the design plan with use of an elevator to reach the upstairs multi-purpose space, wide electronically opened doorways and the one level design of the children’s space to nurture and support the physical, intellectual and social development of children with disabilities. How Can I Help? Often parents cannot afford quality child care. New Horizon Children’s Center will offer scholarships to needy families through an already-established endowment that is set aside for this purpose by caring donors. If you would like to support this great non-profit learning center for children with a gift or donation of your time, energy and financial resources please send and email to NewHorizonCC@hotmail.com or call the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church office at 255-1001.
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