Pendleton Children's Center

High-Quality, Affordable

Child Care in Pendleton, Oregon

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June 2025 update

The school year wrapped up early this month, and we said good-bye to our older preschoolers who will be starting kindergarten in the Fall. However, we are still providing child care all summer long, for children ages 6 weeks to 9 years.

Thanks to all the staff and families who attended our year-end barbecue at Til Taylor Park on May 29. Hundreds of hot dogs and hamburgers were enjoyed by so many children and their families members!

This summer, you’ll see a lot of construction going on. McCormack Constructions is finishing up our staff breakroom and conference room space, next to the kitchen. This will free up space for our new children’s library.

Also, there is a lot going on in our new building. In February, we purchased the building next door to our current Center with federal grant funding, and we are currently in the process of renovating the upstairs west end of the building (the former 3Rs Preschool space) to create more child care space.

We will also be removing a set of old stairs on the parking lot side of the building, and replacing them and adding a ramp – which will provide full access to the upstairs of the building for the first time!

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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 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.