Stay for the Day provides care and supervision, monitoring of general health, social interaction and peer contact for impaired or socially isolated adults, mostly senior citizens. Their diverse services promote the well being, dignity and self-esteem of their clients. The center can help physically, mentally and emotionally impaired adults to remain in the community. They focus on maintaining or improving the client level of functioning which allows them to remain at home with loved ones for a longer period of time. The care they provide is mainly targeted to individuals who cannot be left alone during the day but don’t require 24-hour institutional nursing care. Their service also allows family members to return to work, to shop, or have free time available to perform other family chores. They offer hourly, daily and weekly rates to meet their client’s specific needs; and they also accept Medicaid waivers, LTC Insurance, private paid and acclamation programs at no charge.

Visit www.stayfortheday.com for more information.

Little Star Learning Academy offers a home away from home environment for children from ages six weeks old to school age. They know how important it is for kids to eat right, and therefore, provides nutritional breakfasts, lunches and snacks. Little Star Learning Academy caters towards a child’s growth, learning and development. They offer pick-up services from neighborhood schools.

Please visit www.LittleStarsLearningAcademy.com for more information.

Liberty Academy, is founded and own by Sarah D. Brazier. They provide daycare services to Liberty City, an historically underutilized business zone in Miami, FL. They serve children from six months to five years of age for daycare and six to ten years for after-care services. Their facilities are safe and secure, providing parents with an excellent place where their children can be cared for and begin to learn the fundamentals of language and mathematics skills that will help them excel in the school environment. They also provide services 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. The center’s focus is on providing exceptional early-childhood education in the form of visual and sensory stimulation for infants, learning of numbers and letters of the alphabet for toddlers and phonics to help the older children become proficient and eager readers. 

Visit www.libertydaycare.com for more information.

Leaps and Bonds started as a home-based Sacramento, CA daycare for children in low-income households. Eventually, the home-based company grew into many daycares throughout Sacramento, CA. In 2004, the owners, Vanessa and Lance Stemples, decided to move and continue their mission in Ocoee, Floirda: to provide a safe, healthful and age appropriate learning environment that both empowers and encourages children in their socio-emotional, cognitive and physical development. Their daycare concentrates on care for toddlers and pre-kindergarten-aged children in the Ocoee, FL area.

Unable to find a childcare provider that met her high quality standards, Vanessa left her career in healthcare and started Leaps and Bounds Learning Center. It began as a home-based business, and quickly filled to its licensed capacity of 22 children while providing local families a much-needed alternative to “stranger-care” and “childcare mills.” Vanessa found that a focus on caring for the children of low-income families and single-parent households also provided significant non-financial rewards for her. The staff here at Mercantile Commercial Capital was pleased to finance two other locations in Edgewater and Wildwood.

Please visit www.lblc.org for more information.

We were thrilled when Lance and Vanessa Stemples’ came to us when they needed financing for the purchase of their second location: Edgewater, Florida. The new facility will allow them to provide a safe, healthful and age appropriate learning environment for children in the surrounding area. The Stemples will continue to employ and promote a high-scope curriculum which will enable learning through child-choice and stimulating environment.

Unable to find a childcare provider that met her high quality standards, Vanessa left her career in healthcare and started Leaps and Bounds Learning Center. It began as a home-based business, and quickly filled to its licensed capacity of 22 children while providing local families a much-needed alternative to “stranger-care” and “childcare mills.” Vanessa found that a focus on caring for the children of low-income families and single-parent households also provided significant non-financial rewards for her. The staff here at Mercantile Commercial Capital was pleased to finance two other locations in Wildwood and Ocoee.

Please visit www.lblc.org for more information.

Lance and Vanessa Stemples began their childcare business in Sacramento, California. In 2004, after visiting family in Florida, they decided to move their family and their company to Florida. At Leaps and Bounds Learning Center, the mission is to provide a safe, healthful and age-appropriate learning environment that both empowers and encourages children as they develop. The Stemples’ newest location concentrates on care for toddlers and pre-kindergarten-aged children in the Wildwood area.

Unable to find a childcare provider that met her high quality standards, Vanessa left her career in healthcare and started Leaps and Bounds Learning Center. It began as a home-based business, and quickly filled to its licensed capacity of 22 children while providing local families a much-needed alternative to “stranger-care” and “childcare mills.” Vanessa found that a focus on caring for the children of low-income families and single-parent households also provided significant non-financial rewards for her. The staff here at Mercantile Commercial Capital was pleased to finance two other locations in Edgewater and Ocoee.

Please visit www.lblc.org for more information.

Kiddie Koral Child Care is a daycare and preschool for children from the ages of six weeks to 12 years old.  Their mission is to provide a positive and loving environment for children attending their daycare.