Preschool Without Walls now at TheCenter@Wilsona by SBCC

Lake Los Angeles - Preschool Without Walls (PWW), a project of Strength Based Community Change (SBCC), is a parent-child early education program in accessible community locations. SBCC and PWW focus is on educational enrichment for children ages 0-5 which benefits both parents and child. PWW teaches kids in a fun and creative way.

Starting March 14, 2023, PWW will be at TheCenter@Wilsona by SBCC located at 41625 170th Street East in Lake Los Angeles. The hours are Tuesday from 10:00am to 12:00noon.

Preschool Without Walls is a free, bilingual class for children ages 0-5 and their caregivers. Participate in learning activities that not only engage the child but show caregivers different ways to interact with their children at home is the program.

PWW addresses the fact that 80% of the most vulnerable children in Los Angeles County are not attending, and will never attend, preschool due to costs and other barriers. The huge gap in accessibility is closed with PWW.

The results of the work that is done reveals itself when the children start Kindergarten ready to go to school, prepared in social skills and comfortable in a classroom setting, particularly without a parent in the classroom with them. Everything about a formal school classroom seems “normal” to them.

The following is what is on the PWW website: “Preschool Without Walls (PWW) provides a participatory, parent-child early learning program in accessible community locations including parks, libraries, community centers, and faith institutions. All sessions and printed materials are presented in English and Spanish. Parents form relationships with other parents centered on resources to support early learning, child development skills and activities to replicate at home, and a collective commitment to serve as their child's first and lifelong educator. The development of parent and caregiver capacity to facilitate healthy attachment and bonding with children is at the center of this program, which also includes an organizing role centered on long-term transformation of the community institutions where the program takes place into robust resources supporting child development and early learning.

Parents also develop their individual skills to educate young children, with focused support for early literacy and school readiness, early social skills development, and healthy physical activity and nutrition. Some parents grow in this role to take on positions as assistant teachers in the program. PWW has been demonstrated to support key parent and child "protective factors" contributing to health, safety, and overall well-being, and to lead to key gains in child motor, cognitive, and social-emotional development.”

SBCC’s PWW program is structured as an alternative, innovative preschool program designed to serve children ages 0-5 in communities where traditional preschool is unavailable or where families choose not to access preschool for cultural, social, or financial reasons. PWW takes a similar preschool setting and activities, with extension of STEM added onto the curriculum. Parents and caregivers learn along with children and take home very valuable, incentive bonding in a fun and educational way.

The County of Los Angeles Children and Family First Proposition 10 community organizing program supports the work of the network of "Neighborhood Action Council" (NAC) throughout L A County. A NAC is a group of community members that build relationships around shared values and then design and implement projects, programs, and events to improve their lives and the life of the community. PWW is a NAC group.

Please text 661-350-8911 for more information

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Martes 10:00am-12:00pm

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By Shirley Harriman