Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center

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We encourage learning that promotes questioning, curiosity and self-discovery. 

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Vision & Legacy

From Roots To Renewel: A New Chapter For The Center

A new partnership marks an extraordinary milestone. Through collaboration with the Seiderman Legacy Children’s Fund (SLCF), a long-held vision has become reality: the historic Deer Park School property has been purchased, securing the Center a permanent home. This landmark achievement ensures the continued delivery of critical services to children and families for generations to come.

For over 50 years, the Center has followed in the footsteps of its founder, Ethel Seiderman, providing high-quality early care and education to a diverse community of families. FSACC supports children’s school readiness while fostering safe, healthy learning environments and strengthening family well-being. Deeply rooted in the needs of working parents, the Center operates year-round—offering consistent care so families can rely on dependable support while they work, learn, and grow.

Now, we take the next bold step—launching a historic capital campaign to transform Deer Park School into a safe, vibrant, modern campus for learning, play, and community.

Our Credo

We do the most important work. • We believe in the child and the family unconditionally. • We treat the child as an achiever. • We are the cheering squad for the child and the parents. • We applaud their successes, urge them to take risks, and turn their setbacks into new challenges. • We are nurturers, not smotherers. • We encourage learning that promotes questioning, curiosity and self-discovery. • We adore them so they will believe in their specialness. • We are more ready to compliment than criticize, to praise than berate, to encourage than insult. • We believe that in each moment lies the possibility and potential for making each child feel better about him/herself and walk with their head high. • We honor each of our roles in the partnership of caring for children. • We enable others to excel. • Who we are with each other is an example of who we will be with the children. • We will not confuse power and control with discipline and learning. • We will be clear about what we ask of children. Is it for their benefit or ours? • We will require excellence of ourselves, avoid mediocrity, and strive for compassion and humanness. • We will sustain a sense of hopefulness and optimism, keeping alive wonder, freshness and good humor.

-Founder, Ethel Seiderman, circa 1986