About
Giraffe Laugh is a local nonprofit that provides early childhood education and nurturing to 170 Treasure Valley children annually by ensuring school readiness, empowering families, and building strong futures.
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Our Mission
To provide quality early care and education to young children by ensuring school readiness, empowering families, and building strong futures.
Our Vision
Every child in the Treasure Valley has access to quality early care and education, and all parents are supported through the early years of parenthood regardless of age or income.
In 1989, Giraffe Laugh opened our doors as a non-profit, drop-in childcare center providing respite for low-income families. Over the years, we have continued to expand to meet the need for quality, affordable childcare and increased preschool opportunities in the Treasure Valley community.
Today, Giraffe Laugh proudly serves over 170 children annually by ensuring school readiness, empowering families, and building strong futures at each of our centers.
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Our Programs
We currently have two full-time programs that serve children 0-5 years old throughout the entire year, a full-time preschool program that serves children 3.5-5 years old during the school year, and a summer program that serves children that are of school-age during the summer months.
Although Giraffe Laugh serves many children and their families each day, we have many children on our waiting list. We envision every child in the Treasure Valley having equal access to quality early childhood education.
Our Values: R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Responsibility
Modeling accountability to children, staff, parents, board, and self.
Excellence
Dedicated to the mission and values of Giraffe Laugh.
Stability
Maintaining a consistent environment for all families.
Pride
Instilling pride in our diversity,
Education
Cultivating a love for learning in children, staff, and parents.
Caring
Modeling patience and empathy for children and adults in a nurturing environment.
Teamwork
Committed to staff, parents, and board working together in the best interest of children.
There is a major difference between a daycare and an early learning center. The teachers at Giraffe Laugh stand apart because they want to be there, they want to build relationships with the children, and they really want to help. Other daycares are not necessarily helping children build the skills they need. Giraffe Laugh finds ways to solve problems and develop children for their future success.
Ensuring School Readiness
Empowering Families
Building Strong Futures
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Giraffe Laugh is an equal opportunity provider. We serve three meals per day and follow the Child and Adult Food Care Program guidelines to provide healthy and abundant meals to the children in our programs.
In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
fax:
(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
email:
program.intake@usda.gov
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Giraffe Laugh is a local nonprofit that provides early childhood education and nurturing to 170 Treasure Valley children annually by ensuring school readiness, empowering families, and building strong futures.
Giraffe Laugh has two full-time programs that serve children 0-5 years old, a full-time preschool program that serves children 3.5-5 years old, and a summer program that serves children that are of school-age.