Garden Pathways, Inc.
Garden Pathways, Inc., a community-based non-profit organization in Bakersfield, California, provides innovative opportunities for families and individuals of all ages to discover their unique purpose, activate their personal creativity, live in health and safety, and develop skills for success in life. Through collaborative efforts with community agencies, community service groups, and faith-based organizations, Garden Pathways offers mentoring, training, and education in the arts and the art of living. Family to Family
Family to Family Mentoring helps grow healthy families by providing mentors to guide and encourage those who are grappling with the myriad of challenges that face families trying to overcome poverty and at-risk conditions. Hundreds of people have found the support needed to transform their lives — moving from welfare to self-sufficiency — as a result of caring volunteer mentors who have been trained by Family to Family Mentoring. Family to Family’s broad range of mentoring services, along with its comprehensive curriculum, effectively strike at the heart of issues that keep people from reaching their potential.
For more information on how you can become a mentor or if you are in need of help, please contact Family to Family Mentoring at (661) 633-9133.
E3 Performing Arts
E3 Performing Arts provides a creative alternative to traditional day care. Students discover and develop their unique purpose and creativity as they engage in a broad spectrum of the arts, academic enrichment, physical activities, and character education in after-school and day camp programs. E3’s classes give students in grades K-6 rich exposure to diverse art forms, including drama, tap dance, ballet, jazz dance, vocal and instrumental music, visual arts, and gymnastics. The program’s comprehensive offerings also provide abundant support for students to improve their academic skills and physical fitness. E3’s broad dimensions of learning extend to character education as caring instructors both model and employ “teachable moments” to nurture life-building character traits, such as kindness, self-control, and teamwork. E3’s after-school program, along with summer, winter, and spring camps, enable busy families to conveniently maximize opportunities for lifelong learning.
Garden Preschool and Infant Care
The Garden Preschool and Infant Care nurtures comprehensive readiness for success in school and life. In the critical first years, children at The Garden develop increasing competence in all areas — intellectual, physical, social, emotional, and artistic — as they are cared for by staff informed by the best of research in early childhood education. The program guides children to grow as responsible members of a caring community of lifelong learners — emerging in their ability to make positive choices of character, values, behavior, and health. In the kind, enriching environment of The Garden, children discover and develop their uniqueness and creativity. Opportunities for rich experiences in many art forms encourage creative expression through music, movement, language, an d visual arts. The Garden celebrates individual differences and lovingly motivates each child to achieve full potential — building confidence and self-esteem. The Garden’s safe and loving “family atmosphere” repeatedly receives acclaim as an outstanding hallmark.
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