Building High-Quality, Affordable

Child Care in Pendleton, Oregon

Employment Opportunities

We are currently hiring!

Preschool Program Opportunities

Infant and Toddler Program Opportunities

March 2024 update

In our second year of operations, we are caring for 36 children in our two Preschool Promise classrooms, and enjoying our new kitchen and restroom facilities. We are also running an afterschool program for kindergartners, who arrive by bus from the Pendleton Early Learning Center every afternoon.

Unfortunately, we have been hit by a number of circumstances that have delayed our expansion plans. There were some final remodeling details needed in our new classrooms that delayed our licensing inspections in the final months of 2023. Then, in January’s prolonged cold snap — like a number of other businesses in Pendleton — we suffered the break of a fire sprinkler line. This flooded our main room and our three new classrooms, yet again delaying our enrollment expansion. Thankfully this did not affect our existing classrooms, kitchen or restrooms.

As of late March, we are still waiting on our insurance company before we can begin replacing the damaged 75-year-old wooden flooring that was warped due to the flood.

Once the flooring is replaced and our new classrooms walls are re-installed, we will need to wait for all our required inspections to be completed to assure the building is safe and ready to welcome more children.

We thank everyone on our waiting list for your patience! If you’d like to be added to our waiting list, please contact Director Brittney Jackson at director@pendletonchildrenscenter.org and include your name, contact information, your child(ren)’s name and age, and the days/hours you will need child care.

501(c)(3) Nonprofit

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our board of directors is committed to providing high-quality child care and early education to help alleviate the shortage of child care in Pendleton.

This shortage impacts not only parents of young children, but their employers and Pendleton’s economic vitality as a whole. It’s a nationwide problem, but the Pendleton community has the ability and responsibility to come together, fix this problem and create a place that will help generations of our children thrive.

Pendleton could be known as “The Most Child-Friendly Community East of the Cascades” – but it will take all of us working together to make this dream a reality.

Strategic Goals

Pendleton Children’s Center will build and operate a non-profit child care center and preschool located in Pendleton, Oregon, to serve at least 150 children.
Due to the critical shortage of child care infrastructure in the region, our capital campaign will raise funding to build a modern, efficient child care center.
Pendleton Children’s Center’s operations will be funded by tuition, grants, donations, fundraisers and we will be asking for financial support from the local employers whose employees are working parents.
Our teaching staff will have backgrounds in early childhood education and will participate in ongoing training to create the highest quality educational environment for children from birth through preschool, to prepare children to reach their full potential.
Pendleton Children’s Center will pay our staff fairly and will provide health and retirement benefits in order to recruit and retain excellent employees.
Pendleton Children’s Center will seek accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which is the highly-regarded mark of quality for child care centers nationwide.