Things We Love About Our Organization
At Vermont Hills Family Life Center, we LOVE the work we do every day, and we feel very blessed to be able to be an integral part of the lives of over 1500 children each year.
Here are just a few of the things that excite us most about the care we offer:
- Our teachers care deeply about the kids in their programs and are personally invested in helping them grow.
- Families in our programs receive about $225,000 of scholarships every year to help with the cost of their tuition, which is already calculated to make access to top-notch care as affordable as possible.
- Our programs are staffed very generously, typically well below the required maximum of fifteen kids per teacher.
- No matter how big we grow as an organization, we will always have a family feel. Most of our office staff started as teachers in our programs, and we have not forgotten what it's like to be a child, parent, or teacher at one of our sites. Starting with our executive director and continuing through all of our staff, we know each other, work together, and are pursuing excellence side-by-side.
- We are committed to the mission and vision of Vermont Hills Family Life Center. In an industry that is characterized by high teacher turnover and typically staffed by students and others who are working toward other career goals, our teachers have an average tenure of over three and a half years. We have 36 teachers who have been with us for at least five years, 17 who have been on board for ten years, and five who have passed their 20-year anniversary. One teacher started three years after our executive director founded our organization in 1979 and will celebrate the end of her 36th year this weekend.
- We make it very easy for our teachers to continually work on improving their knowledge and skills. Every year, we have staff participating in workshops put on by their colleagues, completing education coursework, attending seminars held by Portland Public Schools for all of their childcare providers, initiating self-directed activities to foster personal growth, and attending national conferences for the American Camp Association. We are delighted to fund these efforts, and we are always looking for staff who will be invested in being life-long learners.
The work we do is critically important, and we love the opportunity to be fully engaged in a mission that matters.
Here are just a few of the things that excite us most about the care we offer:
- Our teachers care deeply about the kids in their programs and are personally invested in helping them grow.
- Families in our programs receive about $225,000 of scholarships every year to help with the cost of their tuition, which is already calculated to make access to top-notch care as affordable as possible.
- Our programs are staffed very generously, typically well below the required maximum of fifteen kids per teacher.
- No matter how big we grow as an organization, we will always have a family feel. Most of our office staff started as teachers in our programs, and we have not forgotten what it's like to be a child, parent, or teacher at one of our sites. Starting with our executive director and continuing through all of our staff, we know each other, work together, and are pursuing excellence side-by-side.
- We are committed to the mission and vision of Vermont Hills Family Life Center. In an industry that is characterized by high teacher turnover and typically staffed by students and others who are working toward other career goals, our teachers have an average tenure of over three and a half years. We have 36 teachers who have been with us for at least five years, 17 who have been on board for ten years, and five who have passed their 20-year anniversary. One teacher started three years after our executive director founded our organization in 1979 and will celebrate the end of her 36th year this weekend.
- We make it very easy for our teachers to continually work on improving their knowledge and skills. Every year, we have staff participating in workshops put on by their colleagues, completing education coursework, attending seminars held by Portland Public Schools for all of their childcare providers, initiating self-directed activities to foster personal growth, and attending national conferences for the American Camp Association. We are delighted to fund these efforts, and we are always looking for staff who will be invested in being life-long learners.
The work we do is critically important, and we love the opportunity to be fully engaged in a mission that matters.
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