Child Care of Southwest Florida has announced open enrollment to infants for the first time at its Joseph H. Messina Center, located at 4650 Fowler St. in Fort Myers. The Joseph H. Messina Center has expanded its services and offers a newly furnished infant classroom, welcoming infants from ages six weeks through 12 months along.
Child Care of Southwest Florida has received two grants to help install automated external defibrillator (AED) devices in all five of its early learning centers. Both the Claiborne and Ned Foulds Foundation and The Wawa Foundation provided the much-needed funds, totaling $11,000 toward the life-saving devices. All staff members met at Lakes Park on Feb..
More than 120 children at four Child Care of Southwest Florida early learning centers received new zip-up hoodies to stay warm this year, thanks to a donation from Knights of Columbus Council 2596 at St. Francis Xavier, a Catholic fraternal service organization in Fort Myers. The donation is part of the Knights’ national program, Coats.
Children at two early learning centers in Fort Myers are receiving lessons on soccer, teamwork and other valuable skills through Soccer Shots Southwest Florida, thanks to the generous support of two local businesses. For six weeks, 16 children at Joseph H. Messina Learning Center and 16 children at P.A. Geraci Child Development Center will learn.
Child Care of Southwest Florida has hired Esther Kiesel as its new director of development. In this role, Kiesel is responsible for the development, implementation and achievement of philanthropic goals, as well as volunteer recruitment strategies and increasing brand awareness within the community. She also serves as the organization’s lead on the cultivation of relationships.
Dozens of children at P.A. Geraci Child Development Center, a Child Care of Southwest Florida learning center, were surprised with an immersive reading experience of the new multicultural children’s book, “La Casita Hispaniola.” Local authors Yajaida Aristhyl and her husband, Michelson, visited the center on July 25 to read their children’s book, “La Casita Hispaniola,”.
Child Care of Southwest Florida has announced a brick paver fundraiser for the Children’s Learning Center in Fort Myers, an initiative that gives community members an opportunity to help support high-quality early education programs for local families. Engraving a paver can be a great way to honor a loved one, share a memory or promote.
Child Care of Southwest Florida is accepting new student registrations for the summer term at three of its early learning centers in Fort Myers. Child Care of Southwest Florida provides early learning education to more than 350 children across Lee and Hendry counties. The organization accepts children ages 6 weeks through 8 years old, including.
Lateasha Green has rejoined Child Care of Southwest Florida as the center director at the P.A. Geraci Child Development Center in Fort Myers. With more than 20 years in child care, Green has served six years with Child Care of Southwest Florida as the center director of P.A. Geraci from 2012 to 2017. Returning to.
The Community Foundation has named Mary Bartoshuk as Volunteer of the Year through its Excellence in Nonprofit Performance Yearly (ENPY) awards program. Nominated by Children’s Garden of LaBelle, Bartoshuk is a 74-year-old guest reader who is changing the way kids engage with reading. She brings magic to every story by dressing up in fun, elaborate.