At CCUSD Preschool, we provide a positive, nurturing, environment that meets the needs of young children and their families.
Enrichment classes, camps and workshops are available throughout the school year before and after school.
"Kid's Club is a creative, active and safe place for children before and after school"
DREAM IT BE IT FOR GIRLS is a Soroptimist International program for preteens and teens offered by the local Happy Valley of the Sun chapter and sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Carefree Benefit Foundation.
Research shows that girls and women are most successful in every stage of life when they enjoy what they do and choose paths that reflect their personal values. We believe that it is never too early for pre-teens and teens to develop, in addition to their academic skills, self-understanding of what is important to them and what they value most, to start forming a more complete sense of who they are and what personal and career paths they might wish to choose for their most successful and fulfilling lives, now and in the future.
In this workshop students will interact with experienced career professionals and peers in a variety of creative and informative age-appropriate activities designed to:
❖Explore and Voice Values
❖Picture Dreams for Now and the Future
❖Learn to Set Achievable Goals
❖Turn Challenges into Growth Opportunities
❖Build Resilience
❖Explore Careers with Encouragement from On-Site Career Leaders
❖Develop Confidence
Program content will be presented by Soroptimist co-facilitators, with club members present as group leaders for related activity and small student team interactions.
Co-Facilitator Pat Ciriello has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Dayton and an MSW from the University of South Florida. Her first career years were spent in retail leadership with Saks and The Gap. She began her dream career as a clinical social worker in Florida where she ran a program for abused children and their parents and was the Program Director for the lead agency in a five-agency federally funded program for young children exposed to violence. She has specialized training in both play therapy and trauma. In Connecticut she opened a private practice in Sandy Hook, CT, and worked with all ages. She retired to Arizona in 2016 and devotes her time to helping young girls and women succeed in their lives.
Co-Facilitator Rev. Carole Williams earned a B.A. in English & a B.S. in Secondary Education from Memphis State University, a Master of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary, completed Clinical Pastoral Education & a Spiritual Care residency at Banner-University Hospital in Phoenix, & became a Board-Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. Her first career years were spent as a secondary school English teacher in several Memphis public schools. As an ordained pastor, she served in associate and senior pastorates in Tennessee and Mississippi, with extensive ministries development for children, youth and families. She moved to Arizona in 2013 and began her third career focus in hospital chaplaincy with Banner Health, retiring as a supervisor chaplain in 2023. Through many life challenges due to family dynamics, traumas, single parenthood, and as a female pastor, she encountered many opportunities to overcome obstacles and to develop the type of resilience our program teaches. She continues to seek ways to encourage the growth of hope in others.
