Organizations Filed Purposes:
Garden of Dreams Community Preschool and Child Care develops young children through safe and affordable daily care. Our programs are rich in diversity through family and community support and involvement.
Our mission is to create an excellent early learning experience for all of our students by providing safe and affordable care
Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is a very low cost program for children who are four years old across the State of Michigan. This program runs September through May and the children attend Monday through Thursday from 8am - 3pm. GSRP prepares children for kindergarten using High Scope curriculum, which is proven to improve student achievement. We encourage parent involvement and give opportunity for parent conferences and home visits. GSRP classrooms have 2 teachers whereby the lead teachers has a bachelors' degree and the assistant teacher has an associates degree.
Food Service Program We participate in the federal child and adult care food program, CACFP. This program ensures that we serve healthy, family style meals to all of the children in our care. We are critical partners in ensuring that our students receive the proper nutrition that they need to grow and develop. Our kitchen is licensed by the county health department, and we are able to accommodate those with food sensitivities.
Child Care Programming Our child care program serves infants through 5 years old during the school year, and school age children during the summer. We serve families by providing affordable child care licensed by the State of Michigan. We have both private pay and DHHS children and we are open Monday - Friday from 6:30 am to 5:30 pm to meet the needs of our families. We offer a summper camp from June - August each year giving children educational and entertaining opportunities in a safe and nurturing environment. Our classrooms have structured daily routines, include time for outdoor play, indoor play, guided learning, and food and rest time. We employ two full time teacher in each classrooms in order to provide consistent caregivers for all of our students. There are also part time care givers who can fill in when teachers need to take breaks or are gone for the day.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Sharon Ingram | Executive Director | 40 | $43,258 |
| Zena Perry | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Chris Walden | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Jaimie Fales | President | 1 | $0 |
| Linda Weatherbee | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Barb Porter | Director | 1 | $0 |
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