We like to consider ourselves education with heart. We love to connect with families with intention and authenticity.  We encourage enrolled families to join our monthly potlucks (in spring, summer and fall), this is a wonderful time to foster connection over shared food and stories.  Parents meet their child's best forest friends, see them climb their favorite trees, swap parenting techniques, and laugh over our latest parenting struggles and strengths.  

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Chavitos is powered by justice and we value working with and serving underrepresented communities.  This refers to groups of persons who have been relegated to an unimportant or powerless position such that they are prevented from participating fully in decisions affecting their lives.  People may experience further marginalization because of their intersecting identities. They are often communities or populations that face systemic economic, political, social, and cultural barriers, many of them embedded in local laws and norms.  The term encompasses communities with a shared experience of marginalization stemming from circumstances beyond their control. Marginalized communities often include Black, Latino, Indigenous and American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders, and other persons of color, members of religious minorities, refugees, migrants, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQIA2S+) person, rural communities, and persons of disabilities. 

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We see parents as an essential part of our programs and believe in sharing knowledge and resources so our values can be continued and supported at home. We educate and connect  by sharing  a monthly newsletter full of connection to the season, parenting strategies, developmental maps, and updates about our programs.  Here is an example of one to give you an idea.  

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