After a four-year hiatus, all are welcome to help raise funds for our Chatham school for students with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs.
The elegant evening event on Thursday, May 11, features a tricky tray auction, 50/50 raffle, door prizes and dinner at the lovely Birchwood Manor.
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On March 22, ECLC celebrated a major milestone with the grand opening of the new Bergen PRIDE Center in Saddle Brook to serve adults with special needs.
An overflow crowd of excited guests filled the center’s main room, including Saddle Brook Mayor Robert White; Bergen County Commissioners Mary Amoroso and Germaine Ortiz; township Planning Board Chairman James Maniscalco; ECLC Board members, staff, families and clients.
Continue reading “New PRIDE Center Opens in Saddle Brook!”
After a three-year wait, Montville High School students with special needs are learning work skills in the town’s police department through a program developed by our affiliate, Community Personnel Services (CPS)!
The program was approved back in 2020, but the pandemic caused a long delay. Finally, in January students finally began filing, completing data entry and learning other organizational skills in the department’s Records Bureau.
Continue reading “CPS Develops Montville High School Work Study Program”ECLC is like a big family, and so it’s important for us to provide information and support to our parents!
We are pleased to announce our annual workshop series to our own families and to anyone who has students with special needs. All parents are welcome to attend and learn from professionals on a variety of topics, whether or not they have a child enrolled at one of our schools.
Workshops are offered at our Chatham school, 21 Lum Avenue, and our Ho-Ho-Kus school, 302 North Franklin Turnpike.
Continue reading “Parent Education Workshops Offered!”In 1922, as Chatham Borough, along with the entire world, was coming out of a horrible pandemic, there was some a sliver of news: a new school building opened at 21 Lum Avenue.
The new building replaced the borough’s original school, located just yards away, which today serves as the municipal building. It was built to serve youngsters in the somewhat new community of Chatham Borough, which had seceded from Chatham Township only 23 years prior in 1897.
