Providence Learning Center

Mission:

House of Providence exists to equip our communities to serve our most vulnerable children and families with excellence - Until Every Child Has a Home. We offer many programs to support and complement our mental health and behavioral stabilization program for children in foster care. Our family simulation model offers children who cannot safely assimilate into a family setting with a loving environment to stabilize and heal while gaining the skills needed to thrive with their forever family. Our mentoring program improves the quantity and quality of stable connections our residents have, and our voluntary SOAR program offers our residents the opportunity for personal growth through Service, Overcoming Obstacles, Academic Achievement, and Responsibility and Respect.

Focus Area: Education

Project Title: Providence Learning Center – Needed Furnishings

Project Description:

Providence Learning Center, a year-round, developmental K-12 school for children adversely affected by trauma with high social, emotional, and behavioral needs. The building has already been secured. The grant would go towards start-up related items including desks, chairs, tables, science lab tables, library shelves, sensory space, instructor spaces, lunchroom, kitchen, and outdoor recreation equipment. In partnership with Oxford Public Schools, the Providence Learning Center will give children with extreme social, emotional, and behavioral challenges due to trauma the opportunity to rebuild confidence, find community, and succeed in school by offering therapeutic and sensory activities.