Preschool Program – LEAP Children’s Center

The Preschool Program – LEAP Children’s Center includes activities such as art, block building, dramatic play, music, sorting and matching games, listening to stories, movement activities, science activities, and large motor play. The LEAP Children’s Center provides high-quality, trauma-informed early childhood care and education programs, and its classroom environments offer a rich variety of spaces, materials, and activities organized to promote children’s active exploration and mastery.

• Ages: 3–5 years old

Preschool classrooms in this program are composed of children 3 years to 5 years of age. Classrooms are focused on the development of the child’s whole self: creative, intellectual, physical, social, and emotional. Classrooms are the result of careful planning and structuring to ensure that the needs of each child are met in a supportive and nurturing way. Teachers encourage curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, promote cooperative social interactions, support individual creativity and diversity, and provide opportunities for children to use their growing bodies to develop a sense of autonomy and self-worth. Children with different knowledge and abilities stimulate one another’s thinking and encourage pro-social behaviors amongst themselves. The program enables families, children, and teachers the chance to build strong and consistent relationships with one another.

LEAP: Learn • Engage • Advocate • Partner was born out of the chaos of the early 1970s in Isla Vista. LEAP: Learn • Engage • Advocate • Partner mitigates the effects of poverty, racism, and trauma by providing high-quality, trauma-informed child care, comprehensive, culturally sensitive family support, and visionary community leadership. LEAP exists not only to provide direct services to families in need, but also to convene community members and stakeholders for the benefit of all.

Last updated July 10, 2026.