The mission of Total Child Preschool & Childcare Center is to provide quality, affordable early childhood education in an environment that reflects a commitment to embrace and respect economic, cultural, and religious diversity as a positive value to be nurtured in our children, our community, and the world. The goal of the program is to provide a nurturing, inclusive environment where the staff and board of the center can work with parents to affirm and encourage children as they develop physically, socially, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.

At Total Child Preschool & Childcare Center our educational program reflects a number of core beliefs. We believe that:
* Children should be encouraged to explore, problem-solve, to create, and to develop at their own rate.
* Children have different strengths, talents and interests at each stage of development.
* In order to learn, children must be presented with concepts in a manner consistent with their unique learning style and their view of the world at the time.
* Children's self-esteem is developed through authentic accomplishment and thrives in an environment that fosters trusting, nurturing, supportive relationships.

In addition, we strive to create an alliance between our families and the center in order to foster a consistent environment for children, in order to develop a sense of community.