Lily Preschool
Easterseals Southwest Florida / Happiness House, 350 Braden Ave, Sarasota, FL 34243
About
Lily Preschool offers field trips, community-based learning, visual arts, Spanish, movement therapies, and music therapies as part of its early childhood program. The program also includes Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) and access to Therapeutic Riding, Equine-Assisted Learning Programs, Classical Horsemanship, and Classical Dressage through hippotherapy and horseback riding services at InStride Ranch in Nokomis, Florida. Lily Preschool utilizes Creative Curriculum as the foundation of a developmentally appropriate, interactive learning environment.
• Ages: 6 weeks–5 years old
Lily Preschool is a licensed, inclusive early childhood education program that offers a comprehensive early childhood curriculum with field trips, VPK, community-based learning, visual arts, and more. The program promotes healthy and positive self-concepts, provides opportunities to think, reason, question and experiment, stimulates individual imagination, creativity and sense of discovery, promotes language development, encourages sound health, safety and nutritional habits, and respects cultural diversity. All therapy services are available to students of Lily Preschool or to individuals up to 18 years of age, regardless of enrollment, and the music therapy program addresses communication, cognitive, emotional, physical, and social domains.
The comprehensive educational teams at Lily Preschool include early childhood teachers, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and registered behavior technicians, who provide therapies for children with identified needs. Lily Preschool is accredited by The National Accreditation Commission for Early Care and Education Programs.
Lily Preschool operates under Easterseals Southwest Florida, also known as Happiness House. Easterseals Southwest Florida has been part of the Sarasota-Manatee community since 1946 and serves Sarasota and Manatee counties. Through partnerships with Samaritan Counseling Services, Telement Therapy and The Florida Center, the Easterseals Southwest Florida mental health program provides services to many of the clients served throughout the agency. The stated mission is: “We empower individuals and families to shine.”
Last updated February 14, 2026.
• Ages: 6 weeks–5 years old
Lily Preschool is a licensed, inclusive early childhood education program that offers a comprehensive early childhood curriculum with field trips, VPK, community-based learning, visual arts, and more. The program promotes healthy and positive self-concepts, provides opportunities to think, reason, question and experiment, stimulates individual imagination, creativity and sense of discovery, promotes language development, encourages sound health, safety and nutritional habits, and respects cultural diversity. All therapy services are available to students of Lily Preschool or to individuals up to 18 years of age, regardless of enrollment, and the music therapy program addresses communication, cognitive, emotional, physical, and social domains.
The comprehensive educational teams at Lily Preschool include early childhood teachers, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and registered behavior technicians, who provide therapies for children with identified needs. Lily Preschool is accredited by The National Accreditation Commission for Early Care and Education Programs.
Lily Preschool operates under Easterseals Southwest Florida, also known as Happiness House. Easterseals Southwest Florida has been part of the Sarasota-Manatee community since 1946 and serves Sarasota and Manatee counties. Through partnerships with Samaritan Counseling Services, Telement Therapy and The Florida Center, the Easterseals Southwest Florida mental health program provides services to many of the clients served throughout the agency. The stated mission is: “We empower individuals and families to shine.”
Last updated February 14, 2026.
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