Programs and Services
Center Based
Izzi infant and preschool centers provide play-based environments that support child learning for children ages 0-5 years old. We follow The Creative Curriculum® to cultivate a safe and loving environment informed by early child education best practices and to inspire imagination, curiosity, and a deep love of learning.
All families face challenges at different times, and we are here to support them with open arms. For every child, we build the foundation for school and life success. Visit our Locations page to check out our center based programs.
Home Visiting
The Izzi home-visiting program provides year-round, individualized services for pregnant women and families with children ages 0-5 years old all around San Mateo County. This program supports families by promoting the health of pregnant moms and babies and uses the Parent as Teachers curriculum to encourage parents to feel confident as their child’s first teachers. We connect families in the program to each other through monthly social events.
Our home visiting program supports bilingual families in Spanish and Arabic. Visit our Home Based for office locations and more details.
Family Child Care
Our Izzi Family Child Care program offers year-round full-day early learning and child care services to families with children ages 6 weeks to 3 years old in a smaller setting, through licensed providers. This program follows The Creative Curriculum® and provides high-quality child development services for families who prefer a home setting with more flexible hours and days of operating than our center-based programs. We have providers in San Mateo and South San Francisco.
Early Education
Early education is just that, education that lays the foundations for lifetime learning. In our center-based classrooms, we follow The Creative Curriculum®, a comprehensive, research-based pathway that features exploration and discovery as a way of learning. It is informed by the most up-to-date early childhood development research and proven to increase kindergarten readiness. Our curriculum identifies nine areas of development and learning: Social-Emotional, Physical, Language, Cognitive, Literacy, Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Studies, and the Arts. In our home visiting program, the Parents as Teachers curriculum is a research-based model to equip parent educators with information to identify and build on family skills from home. This curriculum promotes and strengthens the following content areas: Child Development, Parenting Behaviors, Parent-Child Interaction, Development-Centered Parenting, and Family Well-Being.
Health & Nutrition
We support the wellness and physical health of all the children we serve. Across our programs, we work with community partners to provide nutritious children’s meals (breakfast, lunch and snack), development screenings, vision and hearing screenings, growth assessments, and dental screenings, cleanings, and other minor procedures.
We also offer structured, and age/developmentally appropriate physical activity for children. We work with parents to address health questions and stay up to date with child immunizations and physical exams.
Special Needs
We gladly welcome students with special needs to our programs.
All children grow in their cognitive, social, and emotional development through connection to children with diverse abilities and learning styles. For children with physical, mental, or developmental needs, we work with the parents and families to support individual family service and education plans. We also work closely with school districts, the County Office of Education, community agencies, and advocacy groups to identify and facilitate a continuity of services necessary to meet each child’s specific developmental needs.
Family Engagement
Engaged families drive child success. Izzi staff use evidence-based, individualized family engagement approaches that build relationships, nurture life-long learning, and support each family’s overall resiliency, as well as their unique strengths and needs.
Our family engagement services connects parents to resources to help them meet their goals. One of these is Raising A Reader, a nationally recognized early literacy program that builds young children’s language and early literacy skills by encouraging parents to read with them. We also uniquely engage with fathers and other adult male role models in the county’s only Father’s Cafe program in a child care setting that also supports and empowers male-peer relationships.