Roots & Wings Family Development Center

In 1994 the City of Thousand Oaks conducted a comprehensive survey to determine the community needs in the area of child care. As a result of this survey, the city discovered that Thousand Oaks was experiencing a critical shortage of quality care for young children. The city developed a plan to provide additional child care spaces and provide some form of financial aid to parents who were unable to pay the high cost of local child care services. One important factor was the assurance that the plan include the quality components that several recent studies had shown to be strong indicators of a program that is beneficial, rather than detrimental, to children whose parents work . A combination of Community Block Grant (CDBG) funds ($540,000) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and $1.9 million in Thousand Oaks Redevelopment (RDA) dollars were used to construct the new Thousand Oaks Childcare Center. The CDBG funds were used to acquire the building and site and RDA dollars were used to design and tranSForm the former Goebel Senior Center into the new childcare facility.

Child Ages:

6 months - 5 years

Licenses & Accreditations:

California Department of Social Services: Community Care Licensing Division

Children per Teacher:

Infant: 4/1, Toddler: 6/1, Pre k: -/-, Afterschool: -/-

Hours of Operation:

7:00 am - 6:00 pm.