Many people are excited about Northern Door Children’s Center and Gibraltar Area Schools forming a community collaboration in Fall 2022 to provide 4-year-old kindergarten, but learning at Northern Door Children’s Center begins far earlier than that. From the earliest days when an infant becomes part of our Center family, we provide stimulating and age-appropriate activities to nurture both a child’s mind and body. We foster social and emotional growth of the children and provide tools to their parents to help strengthen their families. We serve Door County’s youngest and most precious residents.
One of the wonderfully unique things about Northern Door Children’s Center is our infant/toddler looping program. Brain development researchers tell us that a consistent and secure attachment to primary early childhood teachers allows for maximum brain development in infants and young children. For the first three years of life at the Center, children are grouped together by age and assigned to a team of teachers that will remain with them for the entire infant and toddler experience. This creates a secure attachment to primary teachers and provides an opportunity for these young minds to grow and thrive.
When children are ready to graduate into the Center’s 3-year-old kindergarten program, one of the looping teachers accompanies the “loop” into the 3K classroom and remains with them as a part of the 3K team until the children are settled in and completely comfortable with their new learning environment.
This $3.6 million campaign is an essential ingredient to allowing our growing population of children to continue to thrive. Phase I was the construction of a $1.2 million 4K wing, which is complete thanks to the generosity of a $1 million lead gift. Phase II is a $2.4 million project that expands and better utilizes existing space by providing new infant exploration space to foster brain development, reconfiguring and expanding crib areas creating more efficient use of toddler space, and offering resource and preparation space for the 3K classroom.
Your gift will help provide the foundational learning that makes future learning possible.
c/o Door County Community Foundation
222 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
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Northern Door Children Center’s Essential Campaign
c/o Door County Community Foundation
222 N 3rd Ave
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
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c/o Door County Community Foundation
222 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
When we think of essential services, we typically think of firefighters, medical personnel, and police officers. Yet as we learned during COVID, none of these essential workers could do their jobs without high quality, affordable, accessible child care. That’s why throughout the entirety of the pandemic, Northern Door Children’s Center has remained open, providing care for the children of the people who care for our community.
Yet child care is essential for more than just emergency service workers. Northern Door Children’s Center serves the children of the people who serve our community. From restaurant wait staff, to grocery store workers, teachers, bankers, utility company workers, accountants, landscapers, and so many other working people – the availability of high quality, affordable, accessible child care is essential if we are to fill the jobs with the people who serve all of us.
We provide early care and education for children from six weeks old all the way up to 11-year-olds who need a safe place to relax and learn after school and during summers as a part of our Camp Cool program.
Despite the incredible importance of child care to our quality of life, there are only three licensed child care facilities in all of Door County and only one whose mission is to serve the people who live and work north of Sturgeon Bay. Northern Door Children’s Center.
That’s why it’s so critical that Northern Door Children’s Center expands. This $3.6 million capital campaign will dramatically improve our ability to serve the children of the workers who serve our community. Phase I was $1.2 million of new construction that enabled us to offer a new space for our existing 4-year-old kindergarten program, which recently expanded to include a collaborative program with Gibraltar School District. Thanks to an initial $1 million gift to the campaign, Phase I construction is complete. Phase II is a $2.4 million reconfiguration and expansion of existing space, including enlarging both the infant and toddler classrooms.
For more information about the NDCC Essential Campaign and the Phase 2 building renovations, please contact Karl Wise, Essential Campaign Team Chair, by email at jkwise948@gmail.com.
c/o Door County Community Foundation
222 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235