Client Spotlight - LAUP

This month, Harrington Group’s Client Spotlight is focused on LAUP in Los Angeles. LAUP operates on the principle that if a child has the opportunity to go to a quality preschool then they will be more likely to graduate from high school, need remediation or special education, attend college and obtain higher-wage jobs. Period.

In a nation where everyone is understood to have the same rights and freedoms, there is a great divide created by the opportunities available to those who are privileged and those who go without. It is LAUP’s goal to give those children with less the same head start and early learning opportunities as other children so that they will have the same fighting chance to live out their potential.

“Every year, LAUP helps over 10,000 children from various cultural and socio-economic backgrounds receive an outstanding educational experience focused on knowledge, lifestyle, and health, creating a solid foundation for a child’s growth and development.”



With a commitment to accessibility and affordability, LAUP, provides quality coaching and funding to preschools across Los Angeles County so that parents can enroll their children at little to no cost. LAUP works hard to serve as the model for creating a network of free public preschools that allow every child , regardless of his or her individual economic circumstances, to have the same opportunity to enter kindergarten well prepared.

In addition, LAUP places an importance on physical activity and nutrition through all of its programs. It helps facilities to understand the importance of both in early childhood development and works with preschools to integrate programs to support both physical and nutritional health into their everyday. LAUP realizes that it is one thing to learn these good habits, but the real success comes in maintaining the lifestyle; therefore, LAUP makes it a point to teach and encourage families to make physical activity and good nutrition a part of their daily lives at home.

LAUP also realizes that there is a great need for quality Early Care Education facilitators and educators in order to meet the growing need within the community. LAUP’s response to this growing need is to offer and facilitate the Los Angeles Early Care and Education Workforce Consortium, “with the goal of improving the capacity of the ECE workforce in Los Angeles County.”

Thank you, LAUP, for all that you do to give the youth in Los Angeles County an equal and fighting chance to live out their potential and be everything they are meant to be. At Harrington Group, we are proud to be a part of all the good you do to provide our children a better tomorrow.