Welcome to Grace Place for Children and Families!
Our mission is to teach literacy, language, and life skills to at-risk children and impoverished families in our community. Over 500 individuals are enrolled in classes at Grace Place where they are learning the skills to overcome the barriers of poverty and language to reach their goals for school, employment, and life. The outcome is children and families who become productive, contributing members of our community.
Come join us in a place where love and laughter abound, dreams are nurtured, hope shines and the futures of our children are built on a foundation of strong families, academic excellence, literacy and learning, positive mentoring relationships, personal faith and community service to others.
Come join us in a place where love and laughter abound, dreams are nurtured, hope shines and the futures of our children are built on a foundation of strong families, academic excellence, literacy and learning, positive mentoring relationships, personal faith and community service to others.
Mission and More
Mission:
Grace Place is a faith-based, non-profit neighborhood educational center teaching literacy, language and life skills to at-risk children and impoverished families in Golden Gate city (15 minutes east of Naples, FL).
Purpose:
Grace Place provides free high quality, educational programs that foster children’s social, emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual development. Programs concentrate on academic excellence, social competency, relational mentoring for positive behavior choices, safe, structured opportunities for enrichment activities, parenting skills, and family literacy. The outcome will be children who grow up to reach their full potential as literate, happy, healthy, and productive members of society.
Core Programs & Values :
Grace Place has developed a core of effective educational and mentoring programs ·
. Bright Beginnings
. After-School & Summer
. Adult ELL (English Language and Literacy Classes)
. Food Pantry
The three fundamental principles of Grace Place are
1) to strengthen the skills of the whole family, empowering parents to have a positive impact on their children’s development,
2) to start education as early in a child’s life as possible and to retain children for a continuum of care that builds a scaffolding of success, and
3) to create a critical mass of adults and community members surrounding young people that foster academic success, college and career goals, and positive values.
Organization:
Grace Place for Children and Families was incorporated as a non-profit,
501(c)(3), in June of 2004 under charitable, religious and educational purposes. Grace Place is operated by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of 10-15 members from the community with experience in business, financial, legal, education, and non-profit boards.
Grace Place is a faith-based, non-profit neighborhood educational center teaching literacy, language and life skills to at-risk children and impoverished families in Golden Gate city (15 minutes east of Naples, FL).
Purpose:
Grace Place provides free high quality, educational programs that foster children’s social, emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual development. Programs concentrate on academic excellence, social competency, relational mentoring for positive behavior choices, safe, structured opportunities for enrichment activities, parenting skills, and family literacy. The outcome will be children who grow up to reach their full potential as literate, happy, healthy, and productive members of society.
Core Programs & Values :
Grace Place has developed a core of effective educational and mentoring programs ·
. Bright Beginnings
. After-School & Summer
. Adult ELL (English Language and Literacy Classes)
. Food Pantry
The three fundamental principles of Grace Place are
1) to strengthen the skills of the whole family, empowering parents to have a positive impact on their children’s development,
2) to start education as early in a child’s life as possible and to retain children for a continuum of care that builds a scaffolding of success, and
3) to create a critical mass of adults and community members surrounding young people that foster academic success, college and career goals, and positive values.
Organization:
Grace Place for Children and Families was incorporated as a non-profit,
501(c)(3), in June of 2004 under charitable, religious and educational purposes. Grace Place is operated by a volunteer Board of Directors made up of 10-15 members from the community with experience in business, financial, legal, education, and non-profit boards.
