Associated Early Care & Education

In its 127th year, Associated serves diverse communities of low-income working families in 9 neighborhoods of Greater Boston. Our mission: ³To lead through experience, as educators and advocates in urban early education of children from birth, in partnership with their families and communities.² We educate, nurture, feed and provide, direct or by referral, social and mental health services to 900 children, birth to school, in center and family settings. Our comprehensive developmentally, culturally, and linguistically thoughtful curricula are designed to achieve optimum life outcomes and school readiness for children and to provide lifelong skills for parents. Competencies, skills and understandings taught and learned are shared broadly through advocacy, consultation, education and replication.