We offer a series of trainings based on our availability to facilitate the workshops. We have offered the following.

• The Family Nurturing Program – a 13 weeks program for the professional development of early child care providers
• Family Child of Brookline, MA. – a powerful and intensive workshop on Professionalism in Childcare
• Roxbury Children Center – Professionalism in Childcare
• Seminar - Parent and provider work shop titled "Making Parents Feel Welcome"
• Helping Children With Transition – taught to help parents and providers understand how to manage anxiety levels and help their child to adjust in a new environment

P.J. Family Day Care is recognized as a partner in promoting a safe, secure, educational and enjoyable environment for children through its work with assisting other child care agencies to strengthen their program and infrastructure.

We have worked with the following provider programs:

• Precious Jewels Childcare, Hyde Park, MA
• Anis Family Child Care, Mattapan, MA
• M & M with a G Family Daycare, Mattapan, MA

In promoting the highest quality of care for children, ensuring that they continuously receive proper care and attention, we provide information to parents and refer them to organizations such as:

• Family Nurturing Program
• Boston Medical Center
• Dorchester House
• American Diabetes Center
• Massachusetts Department of Social Services

Transition means taking time to prepare the children to take the next step to move on to a larger setting such as K-1 or first grade. We teach workshops that help parents and providers understand how to help reduce anxiety and prepare the child for adjustment in a new setting.

As a successful licensed childcare professional for nearly three decades and Mother of four children, eight grand children and one grandson, I believe that:

• Young children deserve careful attention to every aspect of their physical, social, and cognitive development.
  
  
• Each child comes to a childcare environment with a unique set of defining characteristics, including family background, abilities, temperament, and learning style. Therefore, they need a care giver who actively promotes a positive outcome for children through thoughtful assessment, well implemented curriculum and effective teaching practices.
  
  
• Children are our future and thus I treat them with the potential that I see for them as Presidents and First Ladies so that they will continue to believe that they can grow up to be anything they want to be.
  
  
• Young children’s learning and development are integrally connected to their families. Therefore, to support and promote children’s optimal learning development, PJ Family Day Care recognizes the primacy of children’s families based on mutual trust, respect, support, and involvement of families in their children’s educational growth.
  
  
• Positive self-esteem should be reinforced at an early age. For this reason, the class room is designed to develop and reinforce confidence and most importantly for the children to feel good about themselves in their self-directed play.
  
  
• All early childhood educators must have a good education in order to implement even the most basic values and skills to children.
  
  
• I believe that I am that kind of person because I care. When my days of providing care for young children are over the consistent thing that people will say of me is, "She cared."