Dilia first came to Grace Place nine years ago to attend Beginnings 101 classes once a week and to enroll her eldest son Jose, who is on the autism spectrum and was then one year old, in Early Childhood Education. The pair attended for three or four months before illness forced them to stop. Dilia [...]
Name: Henderson Heussner Age: 19 School: Estero High School (Graduated), I will be attending Yale University in the fall Team: School Age Programs Why did you want to intern at Grace Place? I wanted to gain valuable work experience in an environment that is geared towards achieving a goal I find necessary and gratifying. What [...]
Yefri Figueroa grew up in Golden Gate city. His mother and father emigrated here from Honduras in search of better lives for themselves and for their young children. His family gave up much to come to this country, including his mother’s career as a pharmacist. “My mom has always expressed the importance of education to [...]
It’s another beautiful morning in Naples, Florida. Celia and I sit on a bench in the Grace Place playground as her three-year-old daughter, Jazmin, runs in circles around us. Our attention shifts as Jazmin begins to loudly sing her A, B, C’s while she skips along, first in English, then in Spanish. I examine Celia’s [...]
Grace Place for Children and Families is looking for an Early Childhood Education Teacher Assistant for its three-year-old classroom. For more information, check out our listing on website.
In honor of #GivingTuesday, a special day designed to kick off the charitable season, you can help support the Grace Place team that works so hard to ensure the success of our organization’s programs and families through a gift to “Meet the Overhead” drive. Meet Helga Reinisch…our finance and data associate at Grace Place, who multi-tasks [...]
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, a special day designed to kick off the charitable season.This year you can help support the Grace Place team that works so hard to ensure the success of our organization’s programs and families through a gift to “Meet the Overhead” drive. Meet Helga Reinisch...our finance and data associate at Grace Place, who multi-tasks [...]
On June 3, the staff at Grace Place for Children and Families met to reflect on The Leader in Me insights gathered over the past school year and to discuss plans to implement those discoveries in the fall and beyond. The Leader in Me is a Franklin Covey program that follows a whole-school transformation model [...]
Naples, FL – April 25th – At Grace Place for Children and Families, twenty local philanthropists have fulfilled the $350,000 matching gift challenge that was recently offered by Mr. and Mrs. William Schoen to benefit the organization’s campus expansion campaign.Ultimately, the roughly 13,000 square foot campus at Grace Place is slated to expand to 30,000 [...]
Maria smiles as she places a few children’s books into her shopping cart. This will be the first year she reads Christmas stories to her two children Antonia (3) and Jose (5). When she enrolled Jose in the Bright Beginnings program at Grace Place for Children and Families a little over a year ago, Maria [...]