Pam Black - Director
An Oasis of Love for learning and enhancing developmental skills
Our Mission
To provide a safe atmosphere where children can improve their oral language, early reading, cognitive, social, communication, and creative skills.
Our Goal
To ensure the parent, that their child feels loved, happy, and secure with his/her peers and teachers. To guide the child in developing a good image of themselves, having self-confidence, and healthy attributes toward learning.
Our Commitment
Recognizing that the parent is the primary influence with the child's development and education, we are committed to providing information, referrals, professional counseling, and crisis intervention in order to assist families in meeting their individual family needs. We strongly encouraged parents to get involved in the development of our program, and to utilize their own skills and creativity to increase our children education.
Three reasons for parents teaching/participating with their preschool child are:
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Your child is smarter than the average child and will be in a position to learn new skills at a faster rate.
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Leaving the teaching to the schools can make your child dislike school, interacting with your child education builds your child's self- confidence.
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Parent's teaching their child is the basic relationship among humans in transition of knowledge from parent to child.
Our Curriculum - “featuring Higher Reach Learning Curriculum”
Our curriculum will focus on the development and nurturing of the child's mind. We will be enhancing the oral language, cognitive, and early reading skills for the child. The child will also be learning through arts, small/large muscle skills, reading, music/rhyme activities, and finger plays. The activities will be designed for age appropriate level.
Our program will offer a intellectual, emotional, social, and physical character that meets the need of the total child. Teaching the child basic social skills such as honesty, and cooperation.
Director
A 2004 graduate from the University of Phoenix, Bachelor's in Business Administration. Also completed courses at Muskegon
Community College in Child Development from 1994-1995. Continuous education through seminars, and workshops.
The heart of this program is the mission, goals, and commitment given. Statistics shows the need of quality care for the low-middle income families, and The Oasis of Love Childcare Developmental Center is in the geographical area for caring for that specific need. I personally believe in the gift of a child, creating an atmosphere of a safe haven, striving for the betterment of the welfare of the family as a whole.
Staff
Childcare providers play a significant role in the development of children. We offer a staff with CDA certified, childcare assistant's with 12 hours of early childhood education. The staff has a on-going training through seminars, and workshops. Our program offers a staff with the ability to provided a warm and loving safe environment for your child.
The staff will be trained varies resources, some are:
4C's Resources
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Local Hospitals
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Local Colleges
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Monthly Meetings
“But Jesus said, suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me; for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” -Matt. 19:14
National Statistics
- Nationally, 13 million preschool aged children spend all or part of their day being cared for by someone other than their parents.
(Children's Defense Fund Action Council)
- In 1994, 62 percent of married mothers with a child under the age of six were in the workforce, compared to 30 percent in 1970.
(Child Care Bureau)
- The availability and high cost of childcare forces millions of parents to choose between seeking employment and caring for their children, resulting in the reliance of many families on the welfare system.
(National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty)
- Research shows that quality early childhood education improves classroom conduct and promotes long-term academic achievement.
(Action Alliance for Virginia's Children & Youth)
- The high cost of childcare often makes it inaccessible to many middle-to low-income families.
(Action Alliance for Virginia's Children & Youth)
6 Weeks - 2½ Years old
Pre-school Ages 2½ - 12 Years
