ST MARYS CHILD CENTER INC
901 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202 www.smccindy.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The children we serve are inherently competent, capable, and strong, St. Mary's Child Center: * Impacts pre-school children in poverty -- who are at life and learning risk -- with the highest quality cognitive, creative, social, physical, and emotional learning experiences that will transition into a foundation for lifelong success. * Integrates highly effective professional educators with a proven learning philosophy. * Uses qualitative measures to show impact. * Is accountable to the children and families served, stakeholders and contributors, and the early childhood learning community.

St. Mary's Child Center provides services to impact the futures of young children (ages 3-5) who live in poverty without intervention. Poverty can be devastating to the development of the child. Children in poverty enter school 1.5 to 2 years behind their peers. The gap widens and the child is unsuccessful in school and struggles in later life. Though our outreach program, we work with other educators to teach them about our work.

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT: St. Mary's Child Center provides a family engagement program for the families of our preschool students. All students in the program are welcome to participate. We offer family activities throughout the year. Families meet with Educators and Staff to interact in the centers and learn more about what is happening in the classrooms. A large snack or meal is provided during this time. We work with families year-round to assist in finding resources and necessary services. The programming aspect uses to help the family as a whole.

PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM: An average of 220 children attended St. Mary's Child Center daily. Throughout the year, we serve over 229 children due to transiency. We provide a low adult-to-child ratio (1:7) to ensure that we can focus on the children's social and emotional and cognitive and physical development. The high-quality curriculum mitigates the risks to growth and promotes school readiness to help the children reach their potential and be successful in school and later life. It is expected that poor children enter kindergarten at a 3- or 4-year development level. The overall growth across all domains averaged 84.4% with the post-test, a drastic increase from 68.6% measured from the pre-test. Children are considered proficient if they are proficient in 80% of items within the category.

OUTREACH PROGRAM : St. Mary's Educational Outreach Program provides teacher training to early childhood educators, focusing on teachers who work with needy children. St. Mary's has been positioned carefully to provide teacher training about best practices, the Reggio approach, and Educational Neuroscience. We offer seminars, internships, consulting, study tours, and a more intensive professional development coaching model. St. Mary's educators also presented at state level conferences regularly. The staff at St. Mary's is qualified and has studied the Reggio approach around the world and has been approved for site visits by American educators.

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