Childrens Choice Child Care Service

In 2021, Childrens Choice revised our Core Values based on lessons of the pandemic. Childrens Choice Core Values:1.Safety & Beneficial Risk2.Playfulness & Positivity3Listening4Belonging5Em... & a Culture of Care7.Lifelong LearningWe have adopted Sociocracy as a new governance system that guides our policy development and quality-improvement efforts. This means that in addition to being organized within a legally necessary hierarchical structure for legal accountability with local, state, and federal requirements, in terms of the day-to-day operational or implementational decisions, we have adopted the Sociocratic Circle-Organization Model. What does this mean? The Principle of Consent: We make decisions following the Principle of Consent. Except as required by law and as otherwise stated in these policies, procedural decisions shall be made with the consent of circle members. Consent shall be defined as having no reasoned objections. In other words, a policy decision can only be made if no member of the circle raises an argued and paramount objection to it. Should there be a paramount objection to a decision, arguments for the objection must be given. An objection without reasoned argument will not be considered. The Principle of Circles: Childrens Choice is organized into a hierarchy of semi-autonomous, self-organizing circles that are responsible for operational decisions within their domain. A circle is a group of persons who are operationally related. Each circle has its own aim and has the authority and responsibility to execute, measure, and control its own activities and to maintain an appropriate level of knowledge and skill, overseen by the parent circle. The Principle of Double-Linking: In the hierarchical structure of circles, a lower circle is double-linked to the next higher circle by the Circle Leader and at least one additional person, belong to and participate in the decision making of the next higher circle. Circle Structure: Childrens Choice is organized into a hierarchy of double-linked circles, in the following order, from top to bottom.Board of Directors/Mission Circle: The Board of Directors shall be identical to the Mission Circle, the highest circle in a sociocratically-governed organization. The Aim of the Board/Mission Circle is to accomplish the Childrens Choice mission. All 11 school-age sites are accredited through the Council On Accreditation, designating them as 5-Star Programs in the NM CYFD Tiered Quality Rating System.

Community Providers Training ProgramChildrens Choice uses their established programs as a source of training and technical assistance for the larger community of school-age care practitioners. In addition to our current social media resources for sharing information and storytelling, Childrens Choice has a Pinterest page where we post leadership topics, teambuilding games, and activity ideas in science, technology, engineering, math, music, art, food, field trips, and summer planning themes.