Family Child Care Network
The MARC Academy Family Child Care Network provides student-centered learning and care experiences to help your child reach their limitless potential. Our goal is to provide infants, toddlers, and young children (six weeks to four years) across the Bronx with safe, accessible, affordable, and high quality early learning and care opportunities.
About Us
- Every provider in the MARC network is a licensed home-based day-care in safe, enriching environments.
- Providers are located across the Bronx.
- Providers operate between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
- Providers offer nutritious meals to children in their care.
- Providers are supported by the MARC team of health and safety monitors and education specialists who conduct regular visits and ongoing coaching.
- Providers participate in regular professional learning opportunities offered by MARC.
- he MARC network partners with the NYC Department of Education to offer eligible families subsidies for their care.
- Our team of family service workers can help families determine eligibility for care.
- Providers implement The Creative Curriculum, an evidence based curriculum, and use Teaching Strategies GOLD to to track children's development across multiple domains.
To set up an appointment with one of our family service workers to learn more, please fill out the form below.
Your child deserves a high quality learning and care environment that prepares them for success in kindergarten and beyond. Your family deserves care that is affordable, accessible, and that operates during hours that work for you. Reach out to us to learn more.
If you have any questions/comments, please email our network director.
Eat Well Play Hard Program
MARC Academy providers participating in the New York State Department of Health Eat Well Play Hard program develop the skills to communicate positive nutrition and physical activity messages to the children and families in their care. During the 12 week program, providers:
- Attend five workshops with a nutritionist.
- Receive home visits who will conduct and model nutrition activities.
- Receive a myriad of resources to support their home-based nutrition and physical activities.
