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Meeting Street expands support for all families. Walk-in service planned. Mondor Bldg opening.
Meeting Street set an official opening of the Mondor Early Childhood Building on its Providence Campus with a ribbon-cutting on Thursday, December 5th, at 10:30 AM at 1000 Eddy Street in Providence. The 29,000-square-foot new construction will house the agency’s continuum of high-quality early childhood programs, creating a one-stop destination for families with children, prenatal to age five.
The opening of the Mondor Early Childhood Building marks a significant milestone for the storied Meeting Street, widely known for its schools for children with special needs, dramatically increasing its capacity to support all families in the prevention of developmental delays in their children.
A highlight of the new building is the Family Resource Center, a walk-in service providing no-cost child assessments and support services to any family.
Additionally, the Mondor Building provides expanded space for programming to complement the home-based early childhood services Meeting Street provides to over 4,000 Rhode Island families annually.
The Mondor Early Childhood Building will become a hub for parenting workshops, literacy activities and events that bring families and the broader community together.
“Meeting Street is always evolving to meet the needs of our community,” said John Kelly, President of Meeting Street. “The Mondor Building allows our professionals to positively impact a greater number of families during a child’s critical years of development, prenatal to age 5. We are here as a resource for families as well as to our partners across the educational, developmental and philanthropic communities.”
Key Features of the Mondor Early Childhood Building:
- Seven BrightStars-rated classrooms providing high-quality early childhood education to infants and toddlers of all abilities
· An inclusive, multilingual and adaptive Young Learners’ Library, nurturing early literacy in children birth to age 5
· A walk-in Family Resource Center, providing no-cost, customized child assessments and family support services
· Multiple training rooms providing workshops for families, the community and early childhood professionals
· Fully inclusive, age-appropriate indoor and outdoor play areas and a sensory gymnasium
Opening Event Details:
The ribbon-cutting event will feature remarks from regional and local dignitaries. Tours of the building will be available following the ceremony and interviews with agency leadership are available upon request.
About Meeting Street:
Meeting Street was founded in 1946 as a school for children with special needs based on the belief that all children have a right to high-quality education and developmental support to reach their full potential.
Today, Meeting Street offers an unrivaled continuum of programs and services for children of all abilities, prenatal to age 22, across Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. Our early childhood programs include Early Head Start, Early Intervention, the Early Learning Center, the Family Resource Center, Healthy Families America, Parents as Teachers, Pre-K, the Teen Parent Initiative, Welcome Family and WIC. Our schools include The Grace School (fully inclusive, K-8 in Providence), The Carter School (high school and vocational training for students with profound needs) and The Schwartz School (children with profound needs, ages 3 – 22, in Massachusetts).
For more information or to RSVP for the ribbon cutting, please contact Stephen Heywood at [email protected].