Infant care program to celebrate opening Sept. 23

The School of Human Ecology will celebrate the opening of its infant care program Thursday, Sept. 23.

The infant care program will be located at Bethany United Methodist Church, 3910 Mineral Point Road, where a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held starting at 4 p.m. in the church’s Fellowship Hall.

The ceremony will feature Assistant Vice Chancellor Linda Greene of the Provost’s Office; Robin Douthitt, interim dean of the School of Human Ecology; and Lucinda Heimer, director of the Bethany Preschool Laboratory. New staff from the infant care program will also be in attendance.

The Bethany Preschool Laboratory is the second UW–Madison infant care program to open this year. The Infant/Toddler program, 1800 University Ave., opened in June and serves eight children six weeks to 30 months old. The new Bethany infant/toddler program will serve up to 12 children ages six weeks to 24 months. The Waisman Center will open a third infant/toddler program next year.

Funding from a new federal grant to provide child care for low-income student parents is helping underwrite the cost of the campus infant/toddler care programs.