Collier Child Care Resources Inc

“The form 990 is made available to all members of the audit & finance committee and the board of directors for review prior to it being filed with the irs”

“No contract or transaction between child's path and one or more of its members, board of directors, or officers, or between the agency and any other organization in which one or more of its members, directors, or officers are members, directors or officers, or a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for reason, or solely because the member, director, or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the board or committee which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because his or their votes are counted for such purpose if: a. The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the board or the committee which authorizes the contract or transaction by a vote or consent sufficient for the purpose without counting the votes or consents of such interested directors: and, b.the contract or transaction is fair and reasonable as to the agency as of the time it is authorized by the board of directors or a committee. Common or interested board of directors members may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the board or a committee which authorizes, approves, or rectifies such contract or transaction.”

“The child's path board of directors conduct an evaluation of the chief executive officer at the end of each fiscal year, usually in june. Based on the evaluation, the board of directors determines whether to increase the ceo's compensation. The ceo's base salary is determined based on published data listing average nonprofit ceo/executive director salaries collected by candid guidestar.”

“Documents are made available upon request and a copy of the 990 is available on guidestar.”

“Childs path strengthens and enriches the lives of working families and underserved children in collier county through high-quality early childhood education. 1. Provides tuition-assistance for children aged birth to 5 years old to ensure access to safe, affordable, high-quality, early childhood education thereby ensuring school readiness. 2. Emphasizes the arts and nature through experiential child-directed learning. 3. Encourages childrens innate ability to develop cognitive, physical and social-emotional skills. 4. Engages families to assure their childrens future of lifelong learning.”

“Child's path uses learning practices inspired by the reggio emilia approach - a project-based philosophy and creative curriculum that is flexible and emerges from children's ideas, thoughts, questions and observations. This philosophy and curriculum supports the belief that children are full of potential and that their natural curiosity will lead their learning. Children are encouraged to engage and work with their peers to achieve common goals and develop confidence as they learn at their own pace. Learning goals are based on each child's individual interests and the teachers serve as partners and collaborators. Learning is active and engaging, as opposed to rote and teacher driven. Reggio and creative curriculum-inspired learning views young children as individuals who are curious about their world and have the powerful potential to learn from all that surrounds them. Education, psychological and sociological influences are important factors to consider in understanding children and working to stimulate and enhance learning in appropriate ways. Resources are required to ensure the learning environment is warm, nurturing, healthy, safe, art-based, nature-inspired and flexible, as it promotes creativity, problem solving and engaged learning. Additionally, child's path utilizes conscious discipline, which is a social-emotional learning curriculum that is nationally recognized and evidence based. Conscious discipline assists children in cultivating conflict resolution and problem-solving skills, managing feelings and behaviors, building positive relationships and prevent bullying. Creating caring, cooperative classrooms teaches children to make healthy choices and builds authentic family partnerships. Child's path uses a peo for payroll purposes. Childs path is accredited through the national accreditation commission of the association for early learning leaders for our santa barbara center and moorings center. This accreditation holds childs path to the highest of quality and safety standards in early education. Only 17%, or 30/179, of the early education centers in southwest florida have achieved accredited status. Childs path continues to focus on retaining staff to ensure the delivery of a high-quality early learning programs. Teachers received trauma credentialing in 2021-2022 to ensure they were equipped with the necessary tools to assist children who are entering early learning program with increased delays in their social emotional levels. Additionally, significant support has been provided to teachers to ensure they are delivering high quality interactions aligned with the class tool (classroom learning assessment scoring). Research indicates that children who are enrolled in classrooms with high quality interactions receive a strong foundation that benefits their future academic success. Childs path continues to implement the conscious discipline curriculum which teaches children to identify their emotions, regulate them and solve social problems. Teachers model this program daily and continual training is provided to teachers to ensure the program is operated at its highest potential. In 2021-2022, childs path embarked on a multi-phase strategic planning process, the first phase of which consisted of a market study involving one-on-one interviews with existing and potential donors, as well as community and business leaders in collier county. The market study helped define a multi-facet strategic initiative (on the path to a brighter future) focused on building childs paths capacity beyond current enrollment to make safe, affordable, high-quality early childhood education available to more low-income working families and children in collier county. Future ready collier, a collaborative community endeavor, estimates that there are 4,000 children in collier county that lack access to safe, affordable, high-quality early childhood education due to financial or transportation issues.”

“Volunteers are an asset in our classrooms to provide one-on-one support to children or assist the teacher. Volunteers are instrumental in delivering story time, music, dance and art programs to the children in our four centers. Eight weeks of virtual art and music programs were conducted for 57 children. During 2021 2022 a collaborative relationship emerged between florida gulf coast university and childs path where enrolled children received play therapy from student clinicians enrolled in masters programs at fgcu. This program continues to evolve in 2022 2023. Volunteers also provide valuable services as members of our board of directors and committee members for our marketing & development, audit & finance, strategic planning & sustainability, governance & nominating and building & facilities committees. Childs path recruited three new members to the board of directors in 2021 - 2022 and continues to recruit additional service volunteers. During the 2021-2022 fiscal year, volunteers provided 638 hours of service valued at 18,566”

“Child's path golden gate high school and child's path immokalee high school- our golden gate and immokalee high school centers provide high-quality early childhood educational programing to the children of teen parents enrolled in the teenagers as parents program (tapp) at both high schools. As in all of our programs, we also offer parent education and mentoring to our teen parents. This allows the teen parents to focus on graduating from high school and consider a post-secondary education option for a successful future. They can focus on their studies knowing that their children are in a safe, nurturing, learning environment. These two centers serve children age two weeks to five years old and also provide early childhood education for the children of collier county public school system employees. We follow the collier schools academic calendar at these programs and are only open during the academic calendar, mid-august through early june. The tapp programs earned revenue of 1,054,808 and incurred expenses of 951,141 child's path moorings and santa barbara during the 2021-2022 school year, our moorings center served an unduplicated total of 218 children and our santa barbara program served 154 unduplicated children. Both centers provided scholarship assistance to over 75% of the children enrolled supporting children from low income working families. 100% of the children achieved gains in their developmental milestones. The moorings center experienced a brief closure due to the national teacher shortage. The center was closed 2/4/2022 3/31/22 while we hired and trained teachers within our other programs. Childs path implemented the bright paths for inspiring teachers in 2022, which has been instrumental in attracting and retaining our teaching staff. Through this program we pay for all teacher credentialing and training, while providing a mentoring program that ensures new teachers feel supported and connected. The moorings program earned revenue of 526,347 and incurred expenses of 502,985. The santa barbara program earned revenue of 1,186,561 and incurred expenses of 1,158,329.”

“Professional fees 0 6,097 0 contract services 5,432 7,816 0 leased employee expense 2,050,848 64,763 43,176 less executive director -53,577 -112,944 -25,981 consulting fees 7,635 10,987 0 payroll processing fees 36,166 1,150 1,024 total 2,046,504 -22,131 18,219”

“Fundraising expenses 68,478 fundraising expenses -68,478”