Learning Empowered Inc

Learning Empowered's early learning centers support early childhood development and school readiness. There are 2 Centers for early learning that exemplify the quality components that are proven to start children on their lifelong journey of learning and growing. All Centers are licensed by the Pinellas County Child Care Licensing. Staff have professional qualifications, including bachelor's degrees and Child Development Associate degrees. All classrooms have age appropriate group sizes and ratios. Family engagement involves the adult members and siblings of each child in the life of the center and provides them with needed information and skills to reach family goals of stability, education, and interaction. Our centers use evidence-based curriculum, the Creative Curriculum, that has been proven successful in preparing children for kindergarten. Our centers have quality environments and provide a rich learning environment with a variety of activities and learning centers that engage children's imaginations. Our Centers also focus on DEI, cultural competence and educational equity. We demonstrate daily that all members of the center, staff, families and community are valued and celebrated as unique and valued.The Empowering Babies and Families program offers infant/early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) services for children birth through 3 years old at childcare centers, family child care homes, and in-home through referrals from the community and agency partners. Training, coaching, and IECMHC is available to support families and early learning providers in addressing social-emotional and behavioral challenges in the classroom or family childcare home environment.The Triangles: Partnering for Early Childhood Success Program offers consultation and therapeutic services to families of children 2-5 years experiencing persistent and pervasive difficulties in a childcare setting due to social-emotional and behavioral challenges. Participants receive early childhood mental health consultation, individualized supports, educational guidance, and specialized classroom settings with mental health wrap-around support. The goal is to support social-emotional-behavior development in young children and empower families and teachers to work together to help children become ready for school.

Learning Empowered's Children of the World preschool is a unique preschool designed specifically to enable the children of immigrants and refugees to learn English language, develop social skills, and integrate cultures through the use of Creative Curriculum and a variety of program components that support children and families. Currently, children enrolled in the school represent families from over a dozen different countries. The curriculum was intentionally created to remain responsive to each child and family's ethic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. Family members have access to life skills development through Learning Empowered's family literacy program, including English (ESOL) classes, civics classes, and citizenship test preparation.