{"id":932,"date":"2019-05-01T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/?p=932"},"modified":"2021-02-09T20:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:32:31","slug":"the-drop-zone-drop-in-childcare-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/the-drop-zone-drop-in-childcare-center\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drop Zone - Centro de cuidado infantil sin cita previa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Kalisha Abercrombie Tucker<\/strong> ha sido educador durante m\u00e1s de 30 a\u00f1os y conoce los desaf\u00edos que las guarder\u00edas tradicionales plantean a las familias que pueden no tener un horario tradicional. A trav\u00e9s de su experiencia como directora ejecutiva en un centro de cuidado infantil temprano y su trabajo con diferentes hogares grupales, encontr\u00f3 una pasi\u00f3n y necesidad de sus servicios en la comunidad de Fayetteville. Kalisha cre\u00f3<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedropzone.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> La zona de ca\u00edda<\/strong><\/a>, un centro de cuidado de ni\u00f1os sin cita previa que se abre por horas para satisfacer las necesidades de las familias en Fayetteville. La misi\u00f3n de Drop Zone es aprovechar todas las oportunidades, compromisos, interacciones y experiencias para transformar positivamente las vidas de los ni\u00f1os y las familias a las que sirven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Como madre de 8 y ahora abuela de 22, la vocaci\u00f3n de Kalisha siempre ha sido la de criar a los ni\u00f1os. Segun ella &quot;<em>As\u00ed es como Dios me hizo, y no lo har\u00eda de otra manera.<\/em>\u201cHab\u00eda visto muchas cosas en el cuidado de ni\u00f1os que le gustaban, muchas m\u00e1s que no le gustaban, y sab\u00eda que quer\u00eda crear un espacio donde los ni\u00f1os fueran amados y cuidados. Drop Zone ofrece ese refugio seguro para los ni\u00f1os y las familias que necesitan un cuidado infantil flexible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hubo un momento en el que Kalisha era madre soltera y sab\u00eda lo dif\u00edcil que era encontrar un cuidado infantil de calidad que se adaptara a su horario. Quer\u00eda aliviar la carga y asegurarse de que hubiera una opci\u00f3n para otras familias que luchan por encontrar cuidado de ni\u00f1os en Fayetteville. Sus opciones han sido una bendici\u00f3n a\u00fan mayor durante la pandemia, ya que ahora es un sitio de aprendizaje remoto, donde los ni\u00f1os pueden ser cuidados y completar su trabajo escolar virtual en un entorno seguro y acogedor. Covid-19 ha presentado desaf\u00edos \u00fanicos para todos, pero The Drop Zone ha evolucionado con los golpes. Con proporciones m\u00e1s bajas, uso de m\u00e1scaras y distanciamiento social, siguen tan ocupados como siempre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuando se le pregunt\u00f3 c\u00f3mo ayud\u00f3 el Women&#039;s Business Center a The Drop Zone, Kalisha dijo:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cNo puedo imaginarme estar en el negocio sin ellos. Soy educadora, no empresaria, as\u00ed que necesitaba ayuda en ese lado del negocio &quot;.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le proporcionamos educaci\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s de nuestras diversas clases y talleres, as\u00ed como orientaci\u00f3n de marketing y oportunidades para establecer contactos. Para Kalisha, la mayor bendici\u00f3n es saber que estamos aqu\u00ed para ella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En el futuro, Kalisha espera dejar el espacio que est\u00e1n alquilando y comprar terrenos para desarrollar su visi\u00f3n de The Drop Zone. Espera seguir haciendo crecer su marca y pronto tener una Zona de entrega en los 100 condados de Carolina del Norte. Dondequiera que Kalisha y The Drop Zone vayan en el futuro, siempre estaremos en su esquina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Seguir en:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheDropZoneNC\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalisha Abercrombie Tucker has been an educator for over 30 years and knows the challenges that traditional childcare facilities pose to families who may not have a traditional schedule. Through her experience as an executive director in an early childcare facility and work with different group homes, she found a passion and need for her services in the Fayetteville community. Kalisha created The Drop Zone, an hourly, drop-in, childcare facility to meet the needs of families in Fayetteville. The Drop Zone\u2019s mission is to use every opportunity, engagement, interaction, and experience to positively transform the lives of the children and families they serve. As a mom of 8, and now grandmother of 22, Kalisha\u2019s calling has always been to nurture children. According to her \u201cThat\u2019s just how God made me, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\u201d She had seen a lot of things in childcare she liked, a lot more that she didn\u2019t like, and knew she wanted to create a space where children would be loved and cared for. The Drop Zone provides that safe haven for children and families needing flexible childcare.\u00a0 There was a point in time where Kalisha was a single mom and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[67,68,66,69],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories","tag-childcare","tag-drop-in-childcare","tag-success-story","tag-the-drop-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbcfay.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}