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A Volunteer Program of Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc.SM

Wink News.com Article
Budget crunch threatens child care services for low-income families - April 3rd 2009

Wink News reports about Child Care of Southwest Florida's efforts to help the community. Our own Joseph H. Messina Children's Center was part of this news report.

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Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc.^SM is the region’s leading child care resource.  Established as a private, non-profit organization in 1967, Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc. is led by a volunteer board of directors.

Our mission is to initiate, coordinate, promote and provide high quality child care through leadership, service, and education for families and businesses in Southwest Florida.

We partner with families, child care professionals and the business community to prepare children to enter school ready to learn and to achieve school success. 

Our services include:

• Operating high quality child care centers in Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee Counties.

• Circles of Care Annual Early Education Conference

• Managing the USDA Child Care Food Program. 

• Collier Child Care Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc., has had offices in Collier County since 1991 and expanded our offices to include Immokalee in 2001.
  
  The Organization is guided by a volunteer Board of Directors from Collier County that meets monthly to discuss budgets, agency activities, future plans, fund raising, professional development and organizational policies.