Child's Path

Child's Path golden gate high school and Child's Path immokalee high school- our golden gate and immokalee high school centers provide high-quality early childhood educational programing to the children of teen parents enrolled in the teenagers as parents program (tapp) at both high schools. As in all of our programs, we also offer parent education and mentoring to our teen parents. This allows the teen parents to focus on graduating from high school and consider a post-secondary education option for a successful future. They can focus on their studies knowing that their children are in a safe, nurturing, learning environment. These two centers serve children age two weeks to five years old and also provide early childhood education for the children of collier county public school system employees. We follow the collier schools academic calendar at these programs and are only open during the academic calendar, mid-august through early june. Child's Path did not renew the contract with collier county public schools to administer the tapp at both schools after june 2023. There have been significant increases in operating costs over the past few years and Child's Path was not able to successfully re-negotiate the contract to better cover the operating costs and therefore did not renew the contract. Child's Path moorings and santa barbara during the 2022-2023 school year, our moorings center served an unduplicated total of 74 children and our santa barbara program served 165 unduplicated children. Both centers provided scholarship assistance to over 75% of the children enrolled supporting children from low income working families. All of the children in both programs improved thier cognitive, social and emotional developmental milestones as measured by pre/post scores.