PIRS provides childcare for the young children of women attending all our programs.  We offer a warm and friendly place for children to learn English and make new friends.

The goals of the Children’s Programs are:

• To introduce children to what is often their first group experience in a supportive and culturally appropriate environment;
• To help children feel comfortable being away from their parents and in the care of adults from outside the immediate family;
• To promote children’s sense of self esteem and their pride in their cultural heritage;
• To encourage children to learn how to make choices and to share and cooperate with other children;
• To provide children with opportunities to develop their language skills;
• To prepare pre-schoolers for successful entry into kindergarten.

Most of our staff  are multilingual.  They speak a range of languages, including: Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian. Hindi, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Punjabi, Italian, Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Portuguese, Tagalog, Dari, Polish, Romanian,  and many more.