The Boys & Girls Clubs of Central and Northern New Hampshire has plenty of experience merging with child care centers statewide. Now, the organization has partnered with Plymouth State University and Keene State College.
“We had a whole spectrum of scale, and over and over, the Boys & Girls Club, there was a sense in terms of their competencies, experience, size and scope, they had everything we needed,” said Nathaniel Bowditch, provost and vice president of academic affairs at PSU. “And, unlike the giant providers, they know New Hampshire. They know the university system and Plymouth State, and they know who we are, and we know them.”
The bid process involved input from campus staff, families, and early childhood leaders. According to information from USNH, Boys & Girls Club of CNNH was chosen due to its “commitment to providing mentoring opportunities in a high-quality lab-school setting for college students training to be early childhood educators.”
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