Early Excellence and Beyond
It’s double the giggles and double the grins, but also double the worries about child care if you’re blessed with twins, like Joni Gilmore. A single mom who works part-time as a certified nursing assistant, Joni’s load is lighter because her 4-year-old boys attend the Early Excellence Program of Denver, located in the Cole neighborhood. Early Excellence provides high quality (it has a 4-Star Qualistar rating) preschool education to children from two to five years old, with the goal of cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically preparing children to achieve academic success in kindergarten and beyond. Most of the children, like… Read the Rest
Focus Points Family Resource Center: Where Family Always is the Focus
Irene Mejia explains her happiness at being indoors attending a nutrition class on a beautiful summer afternoon by simply saying, “Now is my time.” A wife and busy mother of a teenage daughter, Irene also is the caregiver for elderly parents and in-laws. That demanding caretaking role is further complicated by the fact that her mother has muscular dystrophy and her father has had a stroke. Neither her parents nor her in-laws speak much English. But Irene’s English is good since she took the English as a Second Language… Read the Rest