About the Provider
Description: House of Ruth Kidspace Child and Family Development Center is a Child Development Center in WASHINGTON DC, with a maximum capacity of 48 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 0 - 5 years. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information: Quality Rating: Quality; Mission: KIDSPACE MISSION AND PURPOSE Kidspace/House of Ruth Child and Family Development Center is a family-centered early childhood program providing a therapeutic educational environment, multi-resource support and advocacy for 73 children ages 0-5 and their families who are homeless and at risk. The goal is to assist children and families in overcoming obstacles to long-term stability and autonomy through support, education and connection to resources in their community. Kidspace is a program of House of Ruth, which focuses on providing services to women and children in crisis. The mission of House of Ruth is to provide a safe haven which helps participants find healing from traumatic experiences, overcome barriers to stability and independence, and become interdependent, contributing members of their community. CUSTOMER SERVICE PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE AT KIDSPACE The House of Ruth approach is to provide a respectful, caring, positive atmosphere for child and family development at Kidspace. The work we do is dependent on how we build our relationships with our children and parents. Every interaction with a child or parent needs to be an expression of our desire to meet individuals needs, to recognize the strengths of individual clients and to work collaboratively to reach agreed upon goals. Mutual respect, a listening ear, a willingness to engage in dialogue and negotiation and a consistent approach to problem-solving are hallmarks of customer responsiveness and caring. It is how we approach our clients, as much as what we say, that will make the difference in being effective ultimately. KIDSPACE PHILOSOPHY AND PRINCIPLES OF EARLY LEARNING To meet the needs of an at risk population of young children, the Kidspace early learning philosophy is based on several principles: - Young children learn best by engaging all their senses, including taste, touch, seeing, hearing, and smelling. - Young children need to be actively involved in their learning; learning happens through play, discovery and exploration of the environment. - The child is the initiator of learning; the teacher is a facilitator of learning. - The young child learns best in an emotionally nurturing and creatively stimulating environment. - The child learns through healthy, encouraging and caring relationships with adults who are sensitive to the child's needs and strengths. - The child needs teachers who can vary the program for individual needs and set appropriate individualized objectives. - A child learns best from his/her strengths, rather than focusing on deficit remediation. - Children learn best in inclusive settings where differences are welcomed, accommodated and valued. - Children who have experienced trauma in their lives especially have a primary need to get their emotional needs met and to learn healthy ways to express anger, pain, sadness and hurt without hurting others. - Teachers of children with special emotional needs, provide an environment which is structured, yet with freedom to choose; loving and nurturing, yet with clear boundaries and guidelines and predictable consequences for out-of-bounds behavior. - Young children learn through constant communication, both verbal and non-verbal, with the adults and other children in their environment. All times of the day are opportunities for communication and learning. - Children who are at risk especially need to learn about safe ways of living, including ways to be safe on the playground, in their neighborhood, in the classroom and how to be safe from abuse and other dangers in their environment. - Children who are at risk especially need to learn good health practices, such as hand washing, tooth brushing and toileting routines, good nutritional habits, exercise and other ways to take care of their bodies. Routines throughout the day focus on these important learning opportunities for young children. - An attractive, clean, cheerful and orderly environment helps children, parents and all of us feel better about ourselves and our work. It also aids in the children's (and our) ability to be organized and productive in the environment.;
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