What We Do

Children's House serves a number of constituents:

* Working families who care for the youngest children

* Families who want some socialization experience for their children

* Visitors who need a dependable, safe, welcoming drop in facility

* Single parents who need contact with other singles and families

* Community members who have a place to refer neighbors and friends when family and children issues arise

* Individual family members who need advice, support, counseling to assist them during difficult times

* Orcas Island by providing an essential social infrastructure component to ensure physically, socially and emotionally healthy children who will grow up to offer contributions, rather than challenges, to their communities.

Children's House:

* Offers early childhood education services, not just safe babysitting

* Serves only organic food prepared daily in our kitchens

* Brings children, families and the community together to resolve issues in a caring, immediate, enduring, confidential and effective way.

* Tenaciously holds to its mission, guided by the principles of excellence, perseverence, compassion and accountability.

* Accepts the challenge of providing the highest quality of childcare to a large number of its families who are in the lowest economic categories. An October 2003 front page "Islands Sounder" newspaper article revealed that San Juan County has the greatest gap between the haves and the have-nots in the country.