Stepping Stones again receives nearly $24,000.00 in grant money from Keystone STARS to benefit our child care programs.

The Main Center maintains its NAEYC accreditation and STAR 4 designation. Because of its NAEYC accreditation, licensure is granted by the Department of Education.

A proposal is submitted to the Pine-Richland School District for a before/after school-age program in the Upper Elementary School opening in 2008.

Stepping Stones Main Center receives accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

All six program facilities are registered in the Keystone STARS program, a new program designed to improve and support quality child care and education in the state of Pennsylvania.

At our Crossroads Church facility, members of the church remove walls in the older section of the church to create a new kindergarten care space. Two additional rooms in the other section are also set up for infant care and a Director's Office.

Stepping Stones closes the program site at the Pine-Richland Youth Center (due to lack of space and usable playground) and expands the program at the Crossroads Church to include infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners.

Stepping Stones is awarded a contract with the Mars Area School District to provide Before/After School Age care in the Mars Primary Center.

Stepping Stones celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a Gala and Silent Auction at the Chadwick in Wexford. Over one hundred staff, board and parents attend.

The Pine-Richland School District again awards Stepping Stones a three year contract (through the 2006-2007 school year) to provide Before/After School Age Care in each of the three elementary schools in the district.

The Before/After School Program at Richland Elementary receives accreditation from the National After School Association. (Formerly the National School Age Care Alliance)

A space for Older Infants is created at the Main Center.

Pine-Richland School District again awards Stepping Stones a three year contract to provide Before/After School Age Child Care in each of its three elementary schools. (Through 2003-2004 school year)

Work-Study in Child Development Program is expanded.

A partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Western PA is established.

Preschool Education Classes are discontinued after 20+ years of operation.

The Kindergarten Care Program is expanded.

Happy 20th Birthday!

The After School Leadership Club is created.

Pine-Richland School District again awards Stepping Stones a three year contract to provide Before/After School Age Child Care in each of its three elementary schools.

All programs housed at the GPJA site are moved to the Warrendale Road site.

Stepping Stones Office is moved to the Warrendale Road site, now our "Main Center".

Stepping Stones adopts the Children, Families and Staff of the former Beanstalk Child Care Center and opens an additional site for Extended Day Child Care in the former Pine Elementary School next to the Pine-Richland High School (712 Warrendale Road).

Construction begins a the Warrendale site to add two classrooms, bathrooms and office space.

The Pine-Richland School District awards Stepping Stones a three year contract to provide Before and After School-Age Child Care in each of the three elementary schools in the district.

Stepping Stones moves out of the Farmhouse, its home of 14 years.

Stepping Stones Children's Center moves its programs to the Greater Pittsburgh Junior Academy and the Cross Roads Presbyterian Church.

After Kindergarten Care Program is created.

The Extended Day Child Care for Infants and Young Toddlers is added to our programs of care.

Additional space for our Extended Day Child Care Program is opened in the Greater Pittsburgh Junior Academy, 3 miles west of the Eden Hall site on North Montour Road.

Steggy the Stegosaurus is born!

A partnership between the Home Economics Department of the Pine-Richland High School and Stepping Stones leads to the creation of a Work-Study in Child Development for High School Juniors and Seniors.

Our Before/After School-Age Child Care Program relocates to the Hance Elementary School in the Pine-Richland School District.

Happy 10th Birthday Stepping Stones!

Suzanne Newpher, Stepping Stones Preschool Teacher, becomes the center's second Administrative Director.

A Modular Home is purchased and installed behind the farmhouse.

Stepping Stones Before/After School-Age Child Care Program and the School-Age Summer Camp are established.

Stepping Stones receives non-profit status.

Dedication Ceremony, January 13, 1980

Class of 1980 - First Class of Preschoolers Graduate

A Farmhouse to Schoolhouse in Nine Days
Sandy Major, Director (1979-1988)