Our Mission

Room to Grow Explorers is a program that provides school age children and their families with child development services, education and resources that promote a safe, non-coercive environment for the development of social, emotional, creative, intellectual, cognitive and physical skills. The means of providing such services may include, but is not limited to facilitated activities, workshops, consultation and modeling behaviors. Through their participation in the program, parents learn about child development and learning while fostering their relationship with their child. Children, with the support of caring adults, learn through interest based hands-on involvement and in-depth exploration of the world around them.

 

We trust their self-determination and curiosity. We trust their varied ways of knowing are valid, and their interdisciplinary interests add richness to our shared worlds. We trust that offering supportive relationships and safe places for play and exploration serves young people better than spending their childhoods on coercion and test-training ever could.

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