Our mission is to provide a high quality preschool and childcare experience for each child that will instill self-worth and foster independence, influence their present potential, their future education, and their life. We can accomplish this mission by working in partnership with parents to coordinate creative learning experiences and positive guidance techniques to support the development of the child in the home, school, and community.

Our mission is to provide a high quality preschool and childcare experience for each child that will instill self-worth and foster independence, influence their present potential, their future education, and their life. We can accomplish this mission by working in partnership with parents to coordinate creative learning experiences and positive guidance techniques to support the development of the child in the home, school, and community.

The Mark H. Dawson Child & Family Center’s goal is to create an enjoyable, educational, and healthy environment.  This goal is accomplished by ensuring that the physical, emotional, creative, cognitive, and social needs of the individual child are supported by an age-appropriate creative curriculum and environment.

Our goals for children are:

• to be competent and confident in their abilities
• to be self-directed in a constructive and creative manner
• to learn to cooperate with other children as well as adults
• to develop self-control and a sense of right and wrong
• to develop a love for learning
• to reach their full potential within their own realm of capabilities
• to encourage empathy, acceptance, and respect for others in the classroom and in the community
• to develop the broad language and logical abilities that are the foundation for later academic learning, creative thinking, and positive social interaction