Child Care Center

License Number: FAC#553602594

The Columbia College Child Care Center offers high quality child care for children ages birth to 5 years. The Center offers a warm, family friendly environment that promotes children's healthy development. Children are offered a developmentally appropriate environment and a curriculum that values individual needs with emphasis on positive social and emotional development. Parents are always welcome and encouraged to participate in the program. The Center also serves as a lab site for the Child Development instructional program. Students participate in the Center to gain hands-on experience in working with children.

Child care is free or reduced for families who meet need and eligibility criteria. Call Tiffeny Flies, Child Care Center Manager, for more information 209.588.5278 or fliest@yosemite.edu.

Foster and Kinship Care Education Program

MISSION: The mission of the Foster & Kinship Care Education Program is to provide quality education and support opportunities to caregivers of children and youth in out-of-home care, so that these providers may meet foster children's educational, emotional, behavioral and developmental needs.

Please call 209.588.5278 for more information regarding FREE training opportunities for potential Foster Parents, Licensed Foster Parents, Kinship Providers, and non-relative care providers in Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Calaveras County.