The Children's Center Program provides a variety of activities and materials based on proven developmentally appropriate practices that emphasize concrete experiential learning in order to achieve the following goals:

•  Foster positive self-concept.

•  Develop social-emotional skills.

•  Encourage children to think, reason, question, and experiment.

•  Encourage language and cognitive development.
  

•  Encourage and demonstrate sound health, safety, and nutritional practices.

•  Enhance physical development and skills.

•  Encourage creative expression and appreciation for the arts.

•  Promote a respect for the cultural diversity of staff, children and their families.

•  Be responsive to individual family home values, beliefs, experiences and language as well as to the individual learning needs of all children.

•  Support early spiritual formation based on trust, concern for and acceptance of others.