Community Partners

• Action for Children provides professional development opportunities for staff.
• We partner with Bridgeway Academy to provide childcare services at their school and therapy center.
• Besa matches us with engaged community members to volunteer at our centers.
• Broad Street Food Pantry helps us to offer food resources to our families and staff.
• CELC partners with Central Community House, a settlement house that serves the near east and near south neighborhoods of Columbus.
• CELC partners with the Child Development Council of Franklin County to provide Head Start services.
• The City of Columbus provides funding support and resources for our programmatic efforts.
• The Columbus City Schools collaborate with CELC to provide pre-k at the Linden Park Neighborhood Early Childhood Education Center.
• Columbus Blue Jackets Foundation supports CELC’s implementation of the ParentChild+ program.
• Columbus Diaper Bank provides diapers and wipes to CELC families.
• Columbus Speech and Hearing Center provides speech and hearing assessments.
• Early Start Columbus, a program of the city of Columbus, provides tuition-free pre-k to four and five-year-olds in the Columbus City School district.
• Local Matters brings food education and cooking-based activities to our students at all of our centers.
• CELC partners with The Ohio State University to provide Early Head Start services.
• The Ohio Arts Council sponsors our Preschool Poets Program, hosted by artists-in-residence Nancy Kangas and author Sonya Harris. Poems produced in this program have been featured in a series of short films pairing the kids’ words with animations.
• Through volunteer support, Seeds of Caring helps our family support programming.
• The United Way of Central Ohio graciously provides programming support.