About Us

Our Mission

The mission of the Carroll Area Child Care Center and Preschool (CACCCP) is to provide the highest quality childcare and educational services available, including the provision of food, rest, play, citizenship, habit training and general supervision to children in the Carroll area.  

Our Goals

1. To help children mature by surrounding them with supportive, caring, and well-trained adults that can provide appropriate experiences based on developmental levels while providing for the safety of all children.  Our staff is driven by a love of children and a love of learning.  They are well trained and have access to developmentally appropriate materials, activities, and information for all stages and levels of development. 
    
2. To help children learn by providing a wide variety of activities and materials.  Children need a wide range of choices and experiences in order to grow in the many areas of development.  They need opportunities to be successful as well as opportunities to fail.  We believe that children learn best when they are grouped according to age and developmental level.  We break our classrooms down into six-month intervals through age three to ensure smaller class sizes.  This arrangement allows us to provide more age-appropriate activities for all children. 
    
3.  To provide positive guidance for all children to allow them to develop a sense of responsibility and foster good decision-making skills.  We set realistic and consistent limits for our children.  We use positive reinforcement and praise whenever possible to encourage our children.  When consequences are necessary, then natural and logical consequences are used to help children develop a sense of accountability for their actions. 

History and Additional Information

The Carroll Area Child Care Center opened its’ doors to families with children in the Carroll Community in 1975.  The original location of the center was in the Maple River School building.  As the center grew in size, the location was moved to a building on 7th Street in Carroll. As time passed, the center continued to grow, so in 1996 the center purchased and renovated the Fareway Building, our current location, on West 7th Street.  The Department of Health and Human Services licenses the current center for 168 children. An additional site, located within the Renew Church Building, is licensed for 45 children and serves as the Preschool/School Age program.

Carroll Area Child Care Center and Preschool currently serves 150 children as young as two-months old to age ten.  CACCCP has eight classrooms in the main building and one classroom located at our second site in the Renew Church Building. The children are placed in classrooms based on developmental and chronological age. Our center participates in the voluntary Health and Human Services Quality Rating System (IQ4K) for childcare centers and homes.  The IQ4K program was designed to raise the quality of childcare in Iowa, to increase the number of children in high-quality child care settings, and educate parents about quality in childcare.  The rating system is used to score each center based on the following categories: Professional Development, Health and Safety, Environment, Family and Community Partnerships, and Leadership and Administration.  IQ4K allows our center to show our dedication to quality childcare services. In March of 2023, CACCCP received a Level 1 on the IQ4K. 

Our Three Year Old Preschool Program is currently only open to children enrolled full time at CACCCP.

During the school year we provide before and after school care for 45 school-aged children at our second site. When school is not in session, we run a summer program for these children. Our goal for our summer program is to provide a relaxed environment while still providing the children the opportunity to explore what the Carroll Community has to offer.