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PROGRAM PHILOSOPHY

In keeping with the YWCA mission of peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people, the childcare programs of YWCA Cortland are designed to support families through quality childcare services. Our programs support and empower parents and children by offering opportunities to gain knowledge and respect of self, family, culture, and community in an atmosphere that is developmentally appropriate, safe, stimulating, and nurturing.

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

• a parent/guardian must be a member of the YWCA to use our licensed childcare programs
• there is a $5-$10  registration fee for all programs*
• there is a discount for the oldest child for families with more than one child enrolled in one or more of our programs

YWCA Cortland is actively working to improve the availability of quality child care in our community. This effort is supported by the Cortland County Chamber of Commerce. Read more about the Chamber’s support here.

Our Executive Director holds a position on the Governor’s Child Care Availability Task Force charged with examining a systematic change that will benefit all families in New York State (NYS) who rely on early learning care. As both the Executive Director of YWCA Cortland and the Child Care Issue Leader of the YWCA’s of NYS, she Chairs the Workforce/Business Workgroup of the Governor’s Task Force delivering local voices directly to Albany decision-makers, so they know that child care is an economic development issue.

CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (CCAP)

See if you qualify for low or no-cost child care with the Child Care Assistance Eligibility Questionnaire. This takes just 10 minutes to complete.

More information about this program can be found on the Office of Children and Family Services website.

SCHOOL-AGE CARE AND RECREATION

The YWCA operates safe, recreational care for children ages 5-12 at six sites during the school year. Children are able to choose from a variety of activities. All sites provide a snack, use of a large outdoor play area, gym time (depending on school and time of year), a variety of games, art materials, time for reading or homework, and just plain fun! Full and part-time openings are available, but space is limited. Call Taylor Jandrew, School-Age Supervisor, at 607-753-9651 for more information.

YWCA CORTLAND FULL-DAY AND FULL-WEEK CARE

Full-day and full-week care at the YWCA Cortland site during the school year requires pre-enrollment and mandatory sign-up, as space is very limited. We provide snacks, activities, swim time, and lunch to the children with full-day and full-week enrollment; you can send lunch from home.

List of full-day and full-week dates for 2023

SUMMER CARE AND RECREATION PROGRAMS

Let your school-age children have fun over the summer at our summer camp located at the YWCA site. Children 5-12 years are divided into different age groups. For more information on our popular summer camp, please call Taylor Jandrew at 607-753-9651.

HERE WE GROW CHILD CARE CENTER

Location: 16 Miller Street (across the street from Guthrie Hospital)
Contact: Stacey Rorick, Supervisor, 9607) 756-6070

Here We Grow is an NYS OCFS-licensed daycare facility. We offer care year-round from 7:15 am-5:15 pm Monday-Friday for children 6 weeks to 5 years old. Full-time is given priority, and part-time, and per diem enrollment options may be available. Our bright and spacious rooms and large enclosed playgrounds for different age groups create cheerful environments where growth and development in motor skills, socialization, creativity, and self-image are enhanced. Breakfast, two snacks, and lunch are provided. The center is located in a neighborhood community in close proximity to Suggett Park.  Here We Grow is also a Cortland City School District Universal Pre-K site for eligible 4-year-olds. Children attend from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm for socialization. This program follows the Cortland City School District’s calendar.

DROP-IN CHILD CARE CENTER

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Here We Grow Child Care Center

About the Provider

Description: Here We Grow is a unique day care facility sponsored by Cortland Memorial Hospital. We offer care year-round from 6:30am-5:30pm Monday-Friday for children 6 weeks to 5 years old. Full-time, part-time, and per diem enrollment options are available. Our bright and spacious rooms create a cheerful environment where growth and development in motor skills, socialization, creativity and self-image are enhanced. Breakfast, two snacks and lunch are provided. The center is located in a neighborhood community in close proximity to Suggett Park. Children take short nature walks, enjoy the residents at Cedar Run in Cortland Memorial Hospital, and will use the renovated playground equipment at the center.

Additional Information: This facility is authorized to administer medications;Initial License Date: 9/1/1990;

Program and Licensing Details

• License Number:
  39320
• Capacity:
  62
• Age Range:
  Total Capacity: 62;Infants: 8;Toddlers: 24;Preschool: 30;School-Age: 0;
• Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
  No
• Schools Served:
  Cortland School District
• Initial License Issue Date:
  Sep 01, 1990
• Current License Issue Date:
  Sep 01, 2018
• District Office:
  Syracuse Regional Office
• District Office Phone:
  (315) 423-1202 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

Inspection/Report History

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Date	Type	Regulations	Status
2020-08-11	Violation	418-1.8(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
2020-08-11	Violation	418-1.8(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
2019-03-29	Violation	418-1.4(b)(1)	Corrected
Brief Description: Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during various hours of operation of the child day care center.
2019-03-29	Violation	418-1. 4(f)(2)	Corrected
Brief Description: All corridors, aisles, and approaches to exits must be kept unobstructed at all times.
2019-03-29	Violation	418-1.5(b)(5)	Corrected
Brief Description: The program must maintain on file a record of each shelter-in-place drill conducted, using forms provided by the Office or approved equivalents.
2019-03-29	Violation	418-1.8(g)	Corrected
Brief Description: Whenever the child day care center is in operation and the director is away from the premises, there must be a staff person designated to act on behalf of the director, who is knowledgeable about the programs operation and policies.
2019-02-08	Violation	418-1.12(ac)	Corrected
Brief Description: All devices used to warm breast milk, formula or food for infants must be kept at a low temperature not exceeding 120�.
2019-02-08	Violation	418-1.13(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Staff members must be qualified by training and experience to carry out their respective functions in the administration, operation and maintenance of the child day care center.
2019-02-08	Violation	418-1.13(k)	Corrected
Brief Description: All staff with plans of study, including plans of study permitted through a waiver request must register in New York’s training registry for early childhood professionals. Progress on plans of study will be monitored by the Office through the New York Registry.
2018-08-07	418-1.13(a)	Not Corrected
Brief Description: Staff members must be qualified by training and experience to carry out their respective functions in the administration, operation and maintenance of the child day care center.
2018-08-07	418-1.8(c)	Not Corrected
Brief Description: The child day care center must provide supervision of the staff responsible for the care of children. Workloads and assignments must be arranged to provide consistency of care to children and to allow staff to fulfill their respective responsibilities.
2018-06-22	418-1.5(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard.
2017-09-25	418-1.15(b)(13)	Corrected
Brief Description: All staff and volunteers of the child day care center must be familiar with the Office regulations and policies governing such programs, and the child care center’s policies. Such regulations and policies must be readily accessible to staff and volunteers for reference purposes.
2017-09-25	418-1.15(b)(14)	Corrected
Brief Description: The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the death, serious incident, serious injury, serious condition, communicable illness, or transportation to a hospital, of a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program. A serious incident includes any event in which a child requires medical attention other than routine illness, is left without competent supervision for any period of time, or leaves the program without an approved teacher or designated person.
2017-09-25	418-1.8(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.

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The correspondent of “RG” walked around the New York of Joseph Brodsky

Three cities, three places were in the life of Brodsky.

Leningrad, where he was born, where he realized that he was a poet, where he adored his Marina and dedicated beautiful poems to her, where he was tried for parasitism, where he was expelled by the party authorities and KGB agents and where he never returned.

Venice, which he loved with all his heart, where he visited every year, where he was always happy, about which he wrote his best essay, where he found his last refuge.

New York, where he was glorified, became a Nobel laureate in literature, got married, where his daughter was born, where he wrote beautiful and wise poems, where he died one January night.

…For several minutes now, I’ve been walking around the spacious and deserted area of ​​Washington Square, where the famous Fifth Avenue flows into Greenwich Village. It was here that we agreed to meet with the writer and essayist Alexander Genis. He promised to show me Brodsky’s New York. We decided to start from the area that Joseph Alexandrovich loved and where on Morton Street was his first home in New York. I look down Fifth Avenue for a little two-tone Mini Cooper with my famous companion.

He arrived on time, and we decided to go straight to Moreton, to house N44. Without looking up from the steering wheel, Genis began to tell… 039

900 02

44 Morton St.

– Look, this is a wonderful area in every respect, Brodsky adored it. Greenwich Village is reminiscent of London’s Bloomsbury – such an aesthetic settlement, a haven for creative intelligentsia. Here – low houses, quite European, cozy streets with restaurants, cafes, small bars, bookstores, theaters … See the theater? I watched Beckett’s “Happy Days” in it. Brodsky liked to wander here with his friends. He did not like it when one of the visitors, after sitting up late, stayed overnight with him. Therefore, he preferred to take visiting guests to walk around Greenwich Village with the obligatory entry into a Chinese restaurant. He knew a lot about Chinese cuisine, loved it and treated his guests with pleasure.

In general, New York and Manhattan in particular are known to be an island. You can go in any direction – from south to north or from east to west – you will still inevitably come out to the water, either to the Hudson or to the East River. And water for him has always been more than just water: for him it is the eldest of the elements, and the sea is his central metaphor, a full-fledged embodiment of time. Among other things, it is the smell, sounds and images of Leningrad childhood. The proximity of water was fundamentally important to him. And here in Greenwich Village, on Morton Street, he got what he wanted. From his house to the Hudson was a stone’s throw. Of course, he liked to be here on the embankment, where ocean ships stood. It probably reminded him of the Leningrad harbor, Vasilevsky Island…

And here is house N44. In general, a fairly typical townhouse. In it, Brodsky owned a semi-basement, quite spacious. But the main advantage of this house is the patio with a garden, a table at which he liked to sit with guests.

Regarding the house on Moreton, he wrote: “Apparently I will never return to Pestel, and Moreton Street is just an attempt to avoid this feeling of the world as a one-way street.”

How did he get this apartment? I must say that housing in this area of ​​New York is prohibitively expensive, and Brodsky, a newly minted emigrant, simply could not afford it. But he was friends with a man named George Kline. Kline was a university professor, a Slavist and a sincere admirer of Brodsky. They met back in Leningrad, Kline brought him a fee for the first foreign edition of his book of poems. It was Kline who introduced him to Auden and asked this remarkable poet to write a foreword for Brodsky’s first book in English. In a word, you can imagine what Brodsky meant to Kline. And what does the house on Morton have to do with it? – you ask. And besides, this apartment belonged to George Klein. He simply ceded it to Brodsky for a while.

What was inside? Its interior was somewhat reminiscent of the now famous Leningrad one and a half rooms in the house at the crossroads of Liteiny and Pestel. A bust of Pushkin, an English dictionary, a souvenir gondola, an old Russian banknote with Peter the Great in laurel leaves…

This completely English life of his, Shakespearean style, hid the Italian stuffing. One has only to look at that patio to recognize the Venetian palette – all colors are ready to become gray. Other allusions include flakes of plaster, a literate winged lion, and a star-striped flag that seems here to be a souvenir of an American relative. In a word, for him this haven was a window to Europe. We have been here with Petya Vail, visiting him. They even recorded a huge interview with him on a tape recorder, which disappeared (the tape just fell off). And one day, in gratitude for the hospitality, they decided to make dinner for him. Yes, not just a lunch, but a lunch prepared according to ancient Roman recipes. I studied Latin at university and wrote the menu in Latin. There were quotes from Martial, and we made the whole dinner according to Martial. The only thing we stumbled over: Martial mentioned quince. We didn’t know where to get quince in New York, we didn’t even know what it was called in English. Then Weill and I climbed into the garden of the New York Museum and impudently stole a quince there.

A menu in Latin was sent to Brodsky. There, by the way, there were such lines from Martial: “A classic is reluctant to dine at a party . ..” Brodsky said that this was the best idea of ​​all that he knew. And so, at the appointed time, we sat and waited for him for our Roman dinner. They waited, waited, waited … And they could not know that at that time he was lying on the operating table in the clinic on Twelfth Street. He was taken away in an ambulance. Heart.

90 006

Russian Samovar, 52-St.

Only the lazy one has not yet written about the famous New York restaurant “Russian Samovar”, created on equity by the no less famous Leningrad emigrant, a fan of poetry Roman Kaplan. He – this restaurant – has long become a club where everyone who loves and knows Russian culture comes and goes. It is easier to say which of the famous, legendary and brilliant poets, directors, artists, composers was not here. It seems that everyone was there, and everyone left their autograph on the walls. It is also well known that when the Russian Samovar found itself in a financial crisis, Kaplan called Brodsky, the newly minted Nobel laureate, and asked for help. Brodsky, in turn, called Mikhail Baryshnikov. The money of Brodsky and Baryshnikov saved the Russian Samovar. And thank God! Where would we sit now with Alexander Genis in the cold and dank February New York? Where would I listen to his brilliant speech about Brodsky accompanied by vodka with trembling aspic and scalding borscht? And so I impudently settled down on the sofa where Iosif Aleksandrovich always sat, under a cozy lampshade, and the only thing that really worried me was whether the batteries in my voice recorder were dead.

– Usually he ordered here what he always loved, starting with homemade Leningrad cuisine: dumplings, cutlets, buckwheat porridge. Sometimes roast goose. Loved it! And of course, jelly, and of course vinaigrette. I drank whiskey. Well, it would seem, what kind of whiskey is there under pickled cucumber and vinaigrette! But one must understand that Brodsky, who grew up in the young literary environment of post-war Leningrad, brought up on captured American films, on cowboy jeans that easily light a match, on whiskey and soda, in English, on LM cigarettes, which his idol Auden smoked, was a much more Westernizer than Westerners themselves. Therefore, whiskey. Well, grappa. This is most likely due to poverty. He began to come to Venice – one of the most expensive cities in the world – when there was not so much money in his pockets, you can’t live on wine, especially in winter. And grappa – why not, a small bottle in a raincoat pocket …

And, of course, those intoxicating literary conversations in “Samovar”! By the way, talking with Brodsky, especially about literature, was extremely difficult. He never agreed with you. Well, it would seem a common thing: two people are talking, one nods his head, then the other nods his head, well, that’s how we are. Everything is wrong with him. Whatever you say – he immediately rushed to argue with you. You can’t force a cat to sit on your lap, just as it was impossible to force Brodsky to agree with you. Once they talked to him about his beloved Faulkner. He languidly, discontentedly agreed, and I felt that protest was already ripening in him. A second later he burst through: Faulkner’s main thing, – he suddenly declared categorically, – is a woman in a black dress, this is the real Faulkner! And that’s it! They hit me like a log on the head: what kind of woman, what is he talking about? . . By the way, he found followers and imitators. When Borges appeared, I ran to Dovlatov with my enthusiasm. He patiently listened to me and thoughtfully remarked: there he has a man in a black coat walking around – this is the real Borges.

Once Brodsky declared that the best novel of all times and peoples was Anatoly Mariengof’s book Cynics. Benz! Then he forgot about it. And when after a while I asked him which book, from his point of view, was the best, he jumped up: when, now? Well, of course, the Radetzky March by Josef Roth! Absolutely irresponsible statement. I understand where he got this from. He physically could not bear the generally accepted, “typical”, established, standard. Your favorite composer? they asked him. Haydn! – he immediately answered. My friend, who knew Brodsky, commented on it like this: well, of course, Haydn, because his “beloved Mozart” would have sounded like a truism. For example, he considered “Poems about the Unknown Soldier” the best of what Mandelstam wrote. I never understood these verses. What is it about? The devil knows! Probably, they, the geniuses, know better. However, Brodsky was a professor and taught students, so from time to time he was forced to make responsible statements. Known for his list of five writers who should be guided by mankind. These are Proust, Faulkner, Platonov, Joyce and Kafka. Above all, he put Platonov. At the same time, he said: woe to the language into which Platonov can be translated.

There are literary names about which he never spoke at all. This means that he either treated them extremely negatively, or they made a very strong impression on him. For example, Okudzhava. Or Mayakovsky. Lev Losev and I came to the conclusion that it was the early Mayakovsky who had a huge influence on him. Since for the Soviet poet only Mayakovsky could be the herald of world modernism. There was no Eliot for the Soviet poet. And early Mayakovsky and early Eliot are very similar.

Of the classics, he enthusiastically treated Ovid. Although Ovid’s poems have a very monotonous rhythmic structure. From my point of view, Horace was always closer to Brodsky. But it was Ovid who somehow brought us closer together. Brodsky arrived in New York when it was relatively empty around him: there was no one to read his poems in Russian, and even in rhyme. Americans do not write in rhyme and most of them do not read poetry in Russian. Brodsky found himself almost in a creative vacuum. Once we were talking about this, and I quoted Ovid to him on the same topic: “… dance a measurable dance in the dark.” He threw up his hands. Ovid?! Where does it come from?! It’s amazing, it’s me, me!

900 02 Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Amsterdam Ave.

– An evening in memory of Brodsky took place here. Early March 1996 years old Quite by chance, the date coincided with the fortieth day after his departure. That evening, the best poets from around the world read his poems. Mozart and Haydn, beloved by him, sounded here. And when the evening came to an end and it was necessary to disperse, his familiar voice suddenly rang out under the vaults of the cathedral: “I was reproached for everything except the weather, / and I myself often threatened myself with a severe bribe, / But soon, as they say, I will take off my shoulder straps / and become just one star…”

This amazing cathedral has a poets’ corner. On the marble are small tablets with the names of the best who wrote in English. Here’s Wystan Hugh Auden, here’s Robert Lee Frost. Auden was his idol and teacher. Thank God, they were destined to meet and talk. And yet… I have a hunch. I think it was Frost that really and deeply interested him. Of course, they could not have known each other, Frost died in 1963. And yet, it was Frost who had what Brodsky consciously or unconsciously always aspired to, what he came to already on the verge of death. He was terribly fond of Frost, because these were not poems about himself. This is fundamentally important. You see, all great Russian poetry is always about “I” and from “I”. From the personal pronoun of the first person. This is Mayakovsky, and Yesenin, and Lermontov … Frost does not write from “I”, he writes about another person, not about himself. And Brodsky, who had mastered the Russian tradition to perfection, was irresistibly attracted there, beyond its threshold, where something fundamentally new in poetry began for him. It is no coincidence that in recent years he has demonstrated a willingness to work in drama, where it is important to be able to speak not from “I”. By the end of his life, he realized something very important. From my point of view, people who create literature change depending on what pronoun they use. And if the author’s pronoun changes, the literature also changes. Not less. It’s like the changes that happen to the person himself as he grows up, as he approaches the last line. See how his face has changed. The appearance of a Jewish boy by the end of his life is transformed into the face of a patrician from August Rome with a medal profile of Dante. And a look that understands not only himself. His face changed as the soul grew and as the personal pronoun changed in his poetry – from “I” to “he”.

In fact, this is the most that a person can achieve – to change the face.

90 002 22 Pierrepont St.

We said goodbye to Alexander Alexandrovich. He drove home in his “mini-cooper”, and my path lay in Brooklyn Heights, a prestigious area of ​​New York, where Brodsky died in his office at N22 Pierpont Street on January 28, 1996.

The morning was surprisingly cold. An icy wind blew from the East River, hard crust on the shoulders, and ruts of ice on the roads. Well, just Russia, somewhere in Nizhny Tagil, or even in St. Petersburg.

From the Brooklyn Bridge, I walked along the embankment, and soon my ears and cheeks were burned by the cold. I turned deeper into the yards, escaping the wind, and after a while I discovered that Brooklyn Heights is a grown-up and matured Greenwich Village with five-story houses and clearly demarcated street graphics. It reminded me of something. What? Somewhere it was already with me. Where?

Here’s a playground, here’s a familiar crossroad. I turned onto this street and soon found myself at house No. 22. This is where everything happened then. The entrance, lit by a dim lamp, the windows of the second floor with drawn curtains. I stood there for about five minutes under the chilly wind and, without hurrying, wandered back. And only about five hundred meters deep in a yard, it suddenly dawned on me: 2002, Vasilevsky Island, dank and cold January, I, as now, am looking for the house he wrote about in his early poems.