Pendleton Children's Center

High-Quality, Affordable

Child Care in Pendleton, Oregon

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September 2026 update

The new school year has begun, and our enrollment is filling up! Director Brittney Jackson and her staff are getting to know all the children: infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kids up to age 9 in our afterschool program. This is our fifth year of operations, and we’ve built a strong team.

We are still waiting on the Oregon Building Codes Division to issue our building permit, so that McCormack Construction can get to work on our new preschool classrooms and access stairs and ramp to our second building. We hope to get going on this project this fall.

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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.

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Strategic Goals

Pendleton Children’s Center will build and operate a non-profit child care center and preschool located in Pendleton, Oregon, to as many families who need child care as possible.

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.