Parent Child Center:  
Provides a preschool experience and day care for children of students, faculty and staff. 
Space for general community available on a limited basis. 
Approved by DSHS.  

Cooperative Preschool:  
Parent education through parent cooperative schools for parents with children, ages birth-5. 
Addresses child growth development and parental attitudes.

Early Childhood Education offered at Shoreline Community College

Provides a preschool experience and day care for children of students, faculty, and staff. Space for general community available on a limited basis. Offers preschool to community.

Privately operated, for-profit or nonprofit preschool programs based in community settings that have no specialized curriculum and are accessible to all children in the community. Activities generally include shape, color and number recognition; outdoor play; observation of nature and pets; fine and gross motor activities; pre-reading and pre-writing skills development; and opportunities for socialization. Community based preschools may offer half-day sessions (or less) that may be available to different groups of children on specific days of the week.

Community Based Preschools

Programs in which parents exchange hours of work in the child care setting for either free child care or reduced child care fees. Child care co-ops usually cannot provide more than 25 hours per week of child care for any one member because parents must provide as much child care as they receive.