HORSEHEADS, N.Y. (WENY) -- For the past three weeks, parents have been scrambling to find their kids care after Chemung Valley Early Learning Center announced it was closing its doors. Now, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. 

Jessica Burdick has been worried for weeks about childcare for her two toddlers who attended Chemung Valley Early Learning Center. She's been working with five parents to form a Parent's Coalition group, to find a solution for the dozens of children who attend the center. 

"I ended up reaching out to someone who had offered a lot of support through the process, who had their own daycare, that's been successfully run for 10 years now,” she said.  

Once Burdick started to come up with a solution for at least a hundred concerned parents, another local childcare center came into the fold. Amy's Sunshine Center in Painted Post may have the answers they have been looking for. 

"They said, 'Absolutely,' and they just jumped right in and started working right alongside us to create a whole, new Amy's Sunshine Center, here, in Horseheads,” she said.  

Amy Cehr's husband, Seth, found out about the childcare center's pending closure through a post on Facebook. She connected with Burdick and started making plans, immediately. 

"I said, ‘We can do that...you know, where there's a will, there's a way,' and there's so many families that utilize this branch of the daycare...that there was no way we could say, 'no,' to doing that,” she said.  

Cehr said she wants to make sure the parents who put their trust in the previous daycare center do not go through the same trials and tribulations they went through over the past few weeks. She added, her management team is ready to step up to the plate. 

"We provide excellent care, and we focus on employee and staff training, and just making sure everybody is right where we want them to be and kids first, you know,” she said.  

Cehr said she will open a new branch of her existing childcare center in the very same location where the Chemung Valley Early Care and Learning Center was located. She also plans to hire on that same staff, meaning the children who attend will remain in the same facility, with the same caregivers.  

The Chemung County Office of Children and Family Services still needs to sign off on licensing. 

WENY News will continue to follow any developments with this story.