CHILDREN'S WONDERLAND SERVES CHILDREN & SENIORS AT SAME SITE...Nation's 1st Full-Service Intergenerational in·ter·gen·er·a·tion·al adj. Being or occurring between generations: "These social-insurance programs are intergenerational and all Day Care Center
To Break Ground At VA Connecticut, West Haven
AGOURA, Calif., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, October 23 at 10:30 a.m., Children's Wonderland will break ground for the nation's first full-service intergenerational day care center at a Veterans Administration facility. The center, which will be at the West Haven West Haven, town (1990 pop. 54,021), New Haven co., S Conn., a suburb across the West River from New Haven; settled 1638, inc. as a separate borough 1873. Although mainly residential, there are diversified manufacturing industries. campus of the VA Connecticut, Healthcare System, will accommodate 200 attendees, ranging from 6 weeks to senior citizen status, and represents Children's Wonderland's first East Coast center. With headquarters in Agoura, CA, Children's Wonderland now has five centers in Southern CA and five in Denver, Colorado. Ten additional new sites are underway in California, Florida and Nevada, and 77 are planned in the next three years. Marketing strategy is to place centers at or near the work site, in conjunction with corporate or governmental employers. What makes Children's Wonderland completely unique among all providers is the range of services it offers in a single location: for infants/toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, before and after school programs, summer camp, mildly ill care, intergenerational elder care in which seniors from age 60 interact daily in the same center with children, and a family resource center with a licensed therapist to provide assistance for family members and caregivers alike in solving problems common to working families. Debby Bitticks, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , founded the original center in 1972. For the last eight years, the organization has worked with therapists and experts in child and senior care to develop each of the components of its full service menu. It was incorporated as Children's Wonderland in September, 1993. Children's Wonderland bases its expansion plan on U.S. population trends showing that children under five and seniors over 65 years now represent 21% of the U.S. population. The U.S. child care industry currently serves over 12,000,000 and is projected to be the 8th fastest growing industry in the U.S., through the year 2000. Regarding the need for senior care, by the end of this century, government statistics estimate over 34 million people over 55 will be living in the U.S. Currently, there are 6 million people over age 80 -- a total expected to double within 15 years. Major corporations are now recognizing that senior care may be as important to their employees as child care.
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/CONTACT: Harriet Modler Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , 310-573-1776 or Debby Bitticks, CEO, Children's Wonderland, 818-865-1306/ CO: Children's Wonderland ST: California IN: SU: KL-SS -- LA026 -- 5745 10/17/95 08:31 EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT |
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