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Opportunity, Inc.
Opportunity Early Childhood Education and Family Center
Empowering the children of working families to achieve
academic and life success through educational programs that
embrace the whole child and through family programming.
was founded by the compassionate and visionary women of the
Episcopal Church Guild of Bethesda by the Sea in Palm Beach
in the early 1930's.
Their desire was to make life better for the less fortunate.
Opportunity Early Childhood Education & Family Center
offers a comprehensive nationally accredited program of school readiness
training, fine and performing arts, recreation, health and
nutrition, social development and field trips. Each program
is specifically designed to prepare our children to begin
kindergarten on an equal footing with their higher income
classmates.
Opportunity is rated four stars by Charity Navigator, it is
accredited by the National Accreditation Commission and has
received the Gold Seal of School Excellence from the Florida
Department of Children and Families. Opportunity employs
fully certified preschool teachers who are required to
pursue continued education in early childhood development.
Since its founding in 1939 Opportunity has expanded its
mission of offering low cost, quality preschool child care
to include support services for families.
We currently serve 96 children and their families.
There are more than 300 children on the waiting list.
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