Child Care Stabilization Grant prevents center from closing, funds expansion
SILVER CITY, NM – On April 6, 2022, the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky attended the grand opening of the El Grito del Bosque Early Learning Center in Silver City, NM, which will provide care for up to 56 children ages six-weeks to three. Under previous ownership the center was set to permanently close, depriving Silver City of one of the only child development centers that served infants and toddlers and stranding dozens of families without child care. Grant County acquired ownership of the building and worked with Misty Pugmire, director of the El Grito Inc. in Silver City, to remodel and expand operations using a mix of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds provided by ECECD and Grant County.
