Vision
Children should have every opportunity to grow and develop in a safe and nurturing environment.

Mission
Our mission is to advocate and act on behalf of the needs and rights of young children, families, and early childhood professionals through educational services, professional growth opportunities, and leadership development.

Peninsula AEYC is always looking for volunteers to participate in our organization on committees for a year or to assist with events and projects for a shorter period of time. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us at paeyc_communication@yahoo.com and we will help find the right place for you depending on your skills, interests and time availability.

Below are some of the particular areas we are looking for volunteers.

Accreditation Committee: we need members for this committee for this year (ending July 2012). This committee works to raise the awareness of the importance of high quality early childhood programs throughout Santa Clara while recognizing and celebrating early childhood programs and professional preparation programs achieving NAEYC Accreditation.

Provider Recognition Event: we need members for this committee for this year (ending July 2012). This committee works to organize our Provider Recognition event.

Month of the Young Child Committee: we need members for this committee for this year (ending July 2012). This committee organizes our booth at San Jose's MOYC Children's Fair.

Web Technologies & Communications Committee: we need members for this committee for this year (ending July 2012). This committee updates our website, facebook and twitter pages, and coordinates our bi-monthly e-newsletter.

Based on feedback from members we are also hoping to increase our awareness and involvement of family child care providers, students, and Spanish speaking early childhood professionals. We encourage everyone interested in learning more about our organization or becoming more involved to come to one of our meetings or contact a board member.

We are very interested in increasing member participation and would appreciate contributions to our newsletter from family child care providers and students. In addition, we would like to find some resources for translating our newsletter, website and having translation available at our meetings.