Our Grace Place team has worked with staff from Florida VPK and Head Start to identify 35 children determined as "not yet ready for kindergarten" for an eight-week Kindergarten Readiness course.  The Course is part of our Bright Beginnings program for parent and child and focuses on key kindergarten readiness skills such as writing, letter [...]

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." -Dorothy Canfield Fisher Grace Place has seen many graduations in the last two weeks.  We graduated 210 K-8th grade students from our Academy of Leaders after-school program, 20 high school AP Leadership students, 200 Beginnings 101 students, 50 Mom [...]

Bargain Box in Naples opened their doors and their hearts to Grace Place for Children and Families’ soon-to-be high school grads for a special congratulatory graduation gift last week! They allowed the students to fill one bag with items for college, complimentary.  This year, Grace Place’s AP Leaders boast a 100 percent graduation rate with [...]

The third annual A Swing of Grace golf outing brought in $100,000! The funds raised set a record for the event, surpassing its cumulative total from the first two years. "This year's event was really fantastic. The timing was smooth and kept a good pace. It was well organized and I especially enjoyed hearing from [...]