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© 2006 Acre Family Day Care

Updated April 27, 2007

 

American Prospect

"Caring for Children as a Career: Professionalizing child care would be good for kids and good for working mothers -- including those who work minding other people's children..." July 15, 2002 (click here to view full article)

Boston Globe

"Winning accolades..." April 20, 2003 (click here to view full article)

 

"National honors for day-care owner..." January 28, 2001 (click here to view full article)

 

"Budgeting to independence: Lowell program helps teens budget with an eye toward reaching goals..." January 21, 2001 (click here to view full article)

 

"Gaining hope by providing it to others: Day care program in Lowell's Acre helps to turn many lives around..." 

December 12, 1999 (click here to view full article)

 

"A Lowell woman who started a program that generates jobs and child care for low-income families has been named one of the nation's Women of Vision..." June 7, 1998 (click here to view full article)

Lowell Sun

"Something they can bank on: 20 people graduate from city program that provides money, skills..." November 14, 2000 (click here to view full article)

 

"Calling the program a model for employers, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration yesterday awarded the Acre Family Day Care Corp. the agency's Vision 2000 Model of Excellence Award..." November 19, 1999 (click here to view full article)

 

"Anita Moeller and the Acre Family Day Care Corp. are getting Mill City families off welfare. And what began was a college project 12 years ago for Moeller has become one of Lowell's greatest social resources for low-income and immigrant families looking to enter the work force..."  June 5, 1998 (click here to view full article)

Ms. Magazine

"The phone in [sic Anita Moeller's] office, where she serves as the executive director of Acre Family Day Care Corporation, a uniquely successful model program for training and supporting family child care providers, has been ringing off the hook.  In the wake of hasty welfare reform legislation, everyone wants to know how she's helped about 150 women become profitable small business owners..." 

September/October 1998 (click here to view full article)