Starms Early Childhood Center is grateful for the commitment of our community partners. Our school, staff, and students are continuously enriched by their ongoing gifts of time, services and resources, creativity and collaboration.

Bader Philanthropies

Continuing Helen Daniels Bader’s passion for education, and family and child welfare, Bader Philanthropies provides Starms staff and students with reading and math content and support.

Children’s Wisconsin

Kids do their best work in the classroom and have the most fun at recess when they’re thriving physically, mentally, and emotionally. School nurses from Children’s Wisconsin help Starms staff improve students’ overall health by assessing their needs and finding ways to meet those needs by working with family members, medical providers, social workers, school support staff, and mental and behavioral health professionals. Contact the Starms ECC nurse at (414) 934-4720.

Community Design Solutions

Community Design Solutions partnered with Design4Kids and Reflo to create and renovate Starms Early Childhood Center playground and outdoor classroom. Based in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning at UW-Milwaukee, CDS helps communities, agencies, civic groups, and campuses to develop indoor and outdoor spaces that promote togetherness and positive change.

Design4Kids

Design4Kids partnered with Community Design Solutions and Reflo to create and renovate Starms Early Childhood Center playground and outdoor classroom. Design4Kids is a planning and development firm that creates and renovates unique outdoor play and learning spaces with teachers and students in mind.

Neighborhood House

Neighborhood House is a community center serving individuals and families at all stages of life, providing wrap-around services including early childhood care, after-school programs, family engagement in the educational process, and more.

Reflo

As part of the Green & Healthy School’s Program, Reflo partnered with Design4Kids and Community Design Solutions to create and renovate Starms Early Childhood Center playground and outdoor classroom, featuring a garden, bioswales and rain barrels, and a trio of slides representing Milwaukee’s three rivers.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin DNR helped our other green space partners design our outdoor gardens and install bioswales to manage stormwater and encourage our students to care for and enjoy the outdoors.