CANCELLATION & WITHDRAWAL POLICY
Irvine reserves the right to cancel a program due to insufficient enrollment. If Irvine cancels a session, all fees will be fully refunded. If you remove your child from a session before it begins, membership fees are non-refundable, and the refunds are as follows:
# Days Before Session Starts
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Refunded Amount
(minus a 10% processing fee)
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21 or more days
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50% of session fee
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20-14 days
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25% of session fee
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13-0 days
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0% of session fee
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Irvine Nature Center’s Early Childhood Education programs strive for inclusion and access to all that seek to enroll. After careful consideration, our refund policies were created towards this end and are in place in order to ensure robust programming for our youngest learners and participants in nature.
INDIVIDUAL CLASS MAKE-UP POLICY
Each semester series has one contingency class scheduled for the end of the semester. The contingency class day will be used if Irvine needs to cancel class (for example due to weather or staff illness). Once it is used, there will not be another contingency day and no refund will be given for weather-related closures. Irvine will provide refunds for additional missed classes due to staff illness.
Earth Friends Semester Series
Please note, Irvine does not provide refunds for missed days due to travel or illness.
At this time, Irvine Earth Friends' programs do not have financial aid or scholarship opportunities. We do, however, in some instances, offer monthly payment plans.
For questions regarding registration, discounts and pricing, please contact Laura Ferrara at FerraraL@ExploreNature.org or 443-738-9215.
If you have questions about class content and/or teaching philosophy, please contact Stephanie Holzman at HolzmanS@ExploreNature.org.
All Earth Friends homeschool families are eligible for an Irvine Teacher membership, a membership with the similar benefits to that of the Pacesetter membership. The Teacher level membership costs $40.00 for a year of benefits. Please contact Laura Ferrara or Emily Macenko for more information about these benefits at FerraraL@ExploreNature.org or MacenkoE@ExploreNature.org.
Thank you for your interest and participation in our Earth Friends programs.