When Child Care Partnership YoungStar Technical Consultant (TC) Kristy Prunty was assigned to provider Jean Stage’s child care program, Play To Learn Child Care Center, Jean was familiar with the YoungStar process and had an ongoing professional relationship with Child Care Partnership. She has been in in-home child care provider for almost 18 years and had previous technical consultation experiences through Child Care Partnership. Her program also took part in Active Early...
From a passion to a career (De una pasión a una carrera) Andrea and Gerineldo Acevedo’s Milwaukee family child care grew from Andrea’s passion for working and volunteering with children. It was this passion, despite “not knowing anything” about running a child care business in the beginning, that brought her husband Gerineldo on board, and led them to build their own child care together, “Peladitos.” They set out to start their child care in 2009, by researching...
Transitions: Not Just Hard for Children Elizabeth was 18 when she started working in child care. Years later in 2006 when she opened her certified family child care program, Auntie E’s Childcare, she had considerable experience in early education. But YoungStar required some transitions that she had not encountered before. “It was a big change,” said Elizabeth, “but a good change.” Elizabeth has five children currently in her care; a 7 month old, three 2-year-old...
The Start of Teddy Bear Family Childcare At the age of 18, Beth Bue started her career in child care working at a group center. Years later in 1993, still in the child care field, Beth had her youngest son and found there was no child care available in her area that worked for her family. So she established her own family child care, Teddy Bear Family Childcare. When YoungStar came about, Beth’s program was in full swing, and she was more than ready to tackle YoungStar req...
A Community Achievement When Kelly Jensen’s program was first featured as a YoungStar success story they had reached 4 Stars, and Kelly professed her commitment to continued program improvement. Now, years later, her program has achieved a 5 Star rating. “When we said we were going to do YoungStar, we kept saying ‘we can do it’ so maybe it would become a reality,” said Kelly. “Then once we hit 5 Stars we were like, ‘holy cow, we are there!’ And you settle bac...
