The new Early Learning & Literacy Resource Center, managed by Sheltering Arms, is now open!  Read more...


Check out these two great videos:
Sheltering Arms:  A Word from Our Families
Thanks to GolinHarris for putting this together!
Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything
From our friends at the Ounce of Prevention Fund in Chicago.


Please take a moment to complete our 2009 Parent Questionnaire.  The results from this survey provide us with information necessary for planning and reporting to our funders.  Remember, your input counts.  Thank you in advance.

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Sheltering Arms is metro Atlanta’s oldest nonprofit child care provider and one of its most respected. Our mission is to serve working families with high quality, affordable child care and education and comprehensive support services, as well as to provide professional development for early childhood educators and community outreach. Sheltering Arms is a non-profit organization. 

We serve more than 3,600 children each year, ages six weeks to five years old, and their families, in 17 child care centers in seven counties. 

Our child care centers are located in the following metro Atlanta counties:
Clayton Jonesboro Cobb Marietta (2)  DeKalb Atlanta Chamblee East Lake	Douglas Douglasville Fulton Atlanta (2) College Park (2) East Point Union City	Gwinnett Duluth Lawrenceville Norcross Rockdale Conyers	View a map of our Atlanta locations!