Seven centres, one model, and the family child care home beside them. Each one is built for a different child and looks like it. The Opportunity Tree is open and licensed; the others are in development.
The colours are not decoration. Each centre is built around one idea, the idea is what the tree is named for, and each page is designed to feel like that idea rather than like the one before it.
The oldest thing in the forest, and still growing.
Everything here is built for the child who is about to change.
Struck, and still growing.
Shelter first. Everything else grows underneath it.
The first one, and the one the others are built from. Open and licensed in Alameda for 32 children.
Built around the hours nobody else covers.
The one that blooms where nobody expected it to.
Neither is a centre and neither is in formation — they are real homes, taking real children, today.
Daycare in Alameda, California.
Family child care home in Oakland, California — open now.
A family child care home is not a small centre. Different setting, different regulations, different ratios, and a different answer for a family. They sit beside the network rather than inside it.
Each belongs to its own provider, in that provider’s own name, and is run by them. The network supplies services to them — it does not own them, operate them, or hold anything on their behalf.
