Escondido Community Child Development Center
Danielle Rush, SHRM-CP, currently serves as the Interim Executive Director and Human Resources Manager at Escondido Community Child Development Center since October 2021. In these roles, Danielle has developed and implemented personnel policies to ensure compliance and introduced employee relations programs to enhance organizational credibility. Prior experience includes serving as the Chief Operating Officer at Guthrie Mainstream Services LLC from January 2005 to August 2020, focusing on providing Home and Community Based Services to the Developmentally Delayed population in Arizona. Danielle's early career included a position as Department Lead/Back Stock at Mervyns from January 2003 to January 2005. Danielle is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management and Services at Grand Canyon University, expected to graduate in 2024, and holds an Associate of Arts in Special Education and Teaching from Mesa Community College.
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Escondido Community Child Development Center
Mission: the Mission of the Escondido Community Child Development Center (ECCDC) is to increase the family’s ability to be a fully functioning unit, capable of meeting its own needs through the provision of high quality childcare and early education. Purpose: ECCDC is a licensed non-profit preschool for children ages 4 months to kindergarten for families working looking for work, or who are pursuing higher education that come from low-income households. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective child development program which includes a full range of education, supervision, health, and social services designed to assist children and their families to maximize their full potential. The core curriculum is offered between 8 am and 12:30 pm. Children may be enrolled in a full-day and/or part-day programs. Early interventions include free annual on-site child developmental screenings and assessments, along with free therapeutic services for vision, hearing, dental health, physical growth & nutrition, speech, first and second language development and early childhood social-emotional competency. Each child is offered 2 main meals and 2 snacks per day through the California Child and Adult Food Program (CACFP). History: The original Title V direct funding contract came as a result of a proposal written by Lorraine Boyce, then Mayor of the City of Escondido, and Ruth Clothier, the Coordinator & Chair of the Child Development Department at Palomar Community College to the California Department of Education, Child Development Division to support the operation of a Title V preschool program at the Escondido Community Child Development Center.