Pine Hill Waldorf School’s Child Care Center

RSF Helps Establish Child Care Facility

With a line of credit from RSF, the Pine Hill Waldorf School is establishing the Pine Hill Child Care Center on the campus of a local public high school. Not only will this new center acquaint families from all walks of life to Waldorf ideals and practices, it is also designed to provide a vocational training program in child development for high school students.

“What is unusual about the center, aside from the fact that it is the first Waldorf-inspired child care center of its kind in the country, is that in addition to serving children of working families, it is serving as a learning lab for high school students who are studying to be early childhood educators in the school district’s vocational center,” says Deb Abrahams-Dematte, director of outreach and enrollment at Pine Hill Waldorf School.

“To serve the greater community’s youngest children by bringing to their daily care the nurturing elements of a Waldorf early childhood education is the paramount aspect of this project,” says Lois Horan, the new center’s director. “It is with heartfelt gratitude that we acknowledge that RSF’s funding for the PineHill Child Care Center truly made it possible.”

Both RSF and Pine Hill are excited to be working together again on the school’s continued growth through the child care center. It is a chance to deepen a relationship that has existed for two decades. “Pine Hill Waldorf School was RSF’s first borrowing client. RSF might not be the organization it is today if we had not worked together on a loan with them in 1984,” says Mark A. Finser, president and CEO of RSF. “ That loan, made possible by the members of the school community who invested with RSF, helped rebuild the school after a devastating fire.”

For more information about the Pine Hill Child Care Center, please call 603.924.6620.

Friday, September 30th, 2005