About Us

OUR MISSION

Changing Tides Family Services helps families be healthy, successful and strong by using integrity, experience and innovation to:

  • Help children, families, and parents find and make best use of the resources within and around them
  • Strengthen our community's ability to improve the quality of life for all families

OUR VALUES

  • Wellness and Success for our staff and all families in our community through the process of learning and development
  • Respect for each other and all the children, individuals and families we are honored to serve
  • Integrity and hold ourselves accountable to be ethical, fair, and non-discriminatory in all our actions
  • Excellence and uphold the highest professional standards and employ the best practices in our industry
  • Flexibility and agility as we respond to the emerging needs of our clients, caregivers, and community
  • Fiscal responsibility and careful use of our resources
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FUNDING

Changing Tides Family Services is funded through public and private sources. A not-for-profit corporation established in 1975, Changing Tides Family Services is the largest non-profit provider of child care and social services to families in Humboldt County.

LICENSES & ACCREDITATION

Changing Tides Family Services is an organizational mental health provider with the County of Humboldt, licensed by Community Care Licensing for its child care services, and is accredited with the California Alliance of Child and Family Services.

GOVERNANCE

Changing Tides Family Services is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. The Board provides broad planning and direction for Changing Tides Family Services. The corporation is managed by a professional management staff.

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What’s New

Family Child Care at Its Best: A Series of Free Early Care and Education Classes

The Business of Family Child Care August 14, 2010

Supporting Young Bilinguals September 18, 2010

Supporting Emergent Readers and Writers November 13, 2010

Loss, Trauma, and Young Children February 5, 2011

Learning through Relationships with Infant and Toddlers April 9 & April 16, 2011

Please call 444-8293 to register or for additional information

Looking for a place to have a meeting or a workshop? Check out our list of meeting venues. Click here.

 

Links

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for information about product recalls and safety.  Click here.