About Us

Our Child Care Center

St. Joseph Child Care Center provides children with a healthy and happy preschool experience. Our Center offers Infant, Toddler, Preschool, and Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) for children 2 weeks to 6 years of age in a safe environment centered around positive child development and amplified with creativity and imagination. Our FREE Great Start to Readiness Program will prepare your child for Kindergarten as they establish friendships, learn math and pre-reading skills, grow in confidence, and develop social and emotional skills that are essential to a successful kindergarten start. For more information regarding GSRP, visit https://www.greatstartoakland.org


We are dedicated to a program rooted in Catholic values and traditions. We support our Felician Ministry and The Felician Core Values: Respect for Human Dignity, Compassion, Transformation, Solidarity with People in Need, Justice & Peace. Our staff is educationally prepared and experienced in the field of child development. Our goal is to nurture and guide your child in reaching their fullest potential.

We help get your child ready for Kindergarten by partnering with you and providing meaningful play-based activities and fresh, engaging learning experiences. We strive for physical, intellectual, emotional, cognitive, and social development and growth.

Creative Curriculum

Our researched-based Creative Curriculum encourages children to remain actively involved in the learning process as they experience a variety of activities designed for each age and stage of development. We support your child's involvement as they explore individual interests through creative and dramatic play while using life in the community and the world as their backdrop. Children learn language, concepts about the physical world, social skills, emergent literacy, problem solving, motor coordination and self-confidence.

Time spent at St. Joseph Child Care Center is a peaceful and joyful time of learning and growing.

Our Staff

Lead teachers hold degrees in Child DevelopmentEarly Childhood Education or related fields of study. Our teachers and aides have experience working with young children.

Nurturing and caring personalities are important requirements for all working in the Center. Staff members are certified in CPR, First Aid and Infection Control. Child to adult ratios are maintained at or below state requirements.

Child Care License

Licensed and monitored by the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Meals at St. Joseph Child Care Center

St. Joseph Child Care Center provides children with breakfast and a hot lunch as well as two nutritious snacks during the day. The food program fulfills USDA recommended nutritional requirements for child care programs

Our Mission

Guided by our Catholic and Felician traditions, we nurture and educate the whole child in a peaceful and faith-filled environment.

Our Vision

Provide a foundation by which children reach their full potential guided by Felician Core Values.

Felician Core Values for Ministry

Respect for Human Dignity, Compassion, Transformation, Solidarity with People in Need, Justice & Peace.