MISSION

The Sammy Center is founded on the belief that every single child is amazing and should be given every opportunity to reach their highest potential.  

We are a high quality program certified through the Utah state rating system.  

Research shows that creating a foundation of confidence and empowerment in young children will pave the way for positive future outcomes, and while adverse situations permeate all socioeconomic backgrounds, The Sammy Center is a place of equity and diversity that knows no boundaries.  

We are a strengths-focused center and meet every child right where they are. We do this by offering small classroom sizes and evidence-based social-emotional curricula and supporting children on how to navigate big feelings and emotions through play, awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and compassion.

The Sammy Center wants to help build children up at a young age to help mitigate and/or help them move through hardships so they can be successful adolescents and then adults. Our trauma-responsive environment supports resilience, self-care, and healing.

We celebrate diversity and embrace non traditional roles. 

The Sammy Center staff believes in a holistic approach and that a home-to-school model is vital for successful outcomes. Families will have access to on-site and Zoom wellness offered by our Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and regular parenting workshops offered by our Professional Parent Trainer.   

As Early Childhood Professionals we have a unique opportunity to create early learning environments that equitably distribute learning opportunities by helping all children experience responsive interactions that nurture their full range of social, emotional, cognitive, physical and linguistic abilities; that reflect and model fundamental principles of fairness and justice; and that help them accomplish the goals of anti-bias education.  

• Demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities;
• Express comfort and joy with human diversity, use accurate language for human connections across diverse backgrounds,
• Increasingly recognize and have language to describe unfairness (injustice) and understand that unfairness hurts,
• Have the will and skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.