Our Services

To fulfill the Nursery’s mission to enhance child, family, and community resilience, we offer three core services:

• Child care
• Parent education and support
• In-community student placements (university level)

The Nursery is in the final stages of an initiative to comprehensively renovate our infant and main facilities. The renovation will enhance our capability to serve families by providing enlarged, redesigned facilities that promote child development in accordance with current knowledge and practice. The facilities will care for 56% more children and provide increased opportunities for in-community student placements.

Who We Serve

Located on the eastern edge of downtown San Jose, we are in one of the county’s lowest income and most diverse neighborhoods. The rich diversity of our children and staff provides an enriched learning environment that promotes respect and understanding for others with cultural, economic, language, gender, ethnic, and physical differences at a time when the values and behaviors of young children are forming.

Although all children learn and develop best in a quality childcare program, those children from families at risk look to the Nursery to meet more of their needs and often benefit the most. These families are coping with a variety of economic, emotional, and personal difficulties that are sometimes severe, such as educational deficiencies, unemployment, changing housing arrangements, and homelessness.

Thanks to generous support from foundations, corporations, and individuals in the community, we are able to provide financial aid to assist 77% of our families whose incomes meet the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development definition of Low Income.