"KidsCare provides high quality school-age child care for families in a safe, friendly, and child-centered environment and offers diverse enrichment and learning activities that reinforce the educational experiences of children, foster a lifelong interest in learning, promote positive self-identities and self-esteem, develop skills for navigating challenging situations and avoiding negative behaviors, nurture positive social relationships, and embrace a healthy respect for the commmunity."

The aims and objectives of the KidsCare "AM" & KidsCare "PM" programs are:

• to provide a safe alternative to children being left at home prior to school and/or going to unsupervised home environments after school.
• to provide a comprehensive, high-interest program that "turns on kids" and provides a positive incentive for every child to want to attend and participate actively in the program.
• to provide a program in a relaxed, child-centered atmosphere geared to providing a variety of unique enrichment and learning activities that reinforce the education experiences of children, promote personal and social development, and foster a lifelong interest in learning.
• to provide activities that encourage children to develop new skills and interests, make decisions and solve problems,
• to promote safe practices and to provide children with strategies and skills for avoiding, as well as dealing with,dangerous and/or challenging situations.
• to provide opportunities for children to develop a better understanding of their local community, as well as the global community.
• to provide parents with a high-quality, reasonably affordable child care program for their elementary age children.
• to provide before-school and after-school child care in a safe and comfortable neighborhood school setting.