PATTERSON – After months of planning when realizing Putnam County needed a facility that offered services to families of special needs children, the Putnam Early Learning Center has begun offering services from its Hudson Valley InterArts Building location in Patterson.

The seven-room facility, operated by the nonprofit Community Based Services in collaboration with the Putnam County Health Department and the Brewster and Carmel Schools, offers educational and daycare programming for students and their families and is part of the county’s ThinkDIFFERENTLY initiative to encourage public awareness and expanded access to services for children with special needs.

The program opened with 19 students with five additional schoolchildren scheduled to join in the coming weeks.

County Executive

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