About Us

Naugatuck Discovery is a unique local collaborative made up of Naugatuck residents, childcare providers, parents, seniors, family service providers, community groups, faith-based organizations and educators. 

A committee of volunteers meets regularly to plan and take action on Discovery's goals and objectives, including community and family awareness about the importance of early childhood education, community outreach and collaboration. Naugatuck Discovery staff work with the committee to achieve its goals.

One of the performance goals for Discovery is to form one council for Early Childhood in Naugatuck, giving every stakeholder a voice, and creating a vehicle for shared decision making by coordinating our efforts to establish a truly effective early childhood voice.

Naugatuck Discovery also endeavors to become a growing resource for Naugatuck's center-based and home-based childcare and early learning providers. 

Naugatuck Discovery will be producing a newsletter for young families and Naugatuck's early childcare and early learning community when the Blueprint is complete.  The newsletter, which Discovery will publishes several times per year, will explore issues in childhood growth, development and learning with insights from local and area professionals.

Discovery works with other Naugatuck organizations to host programs that support and encourage quality early childhood experiences within families and in the community.  Discovery offers Naugatuck community members opportunities to participate in community education workshops funded in part by William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Naugatuck Savings Bank Foundation, and Connecticut Community Foundation,

Naugatuck has several initiatives working separately on the same goals of preparing our children for success in school and life. Discovery invites all initiatives together to form Naugatuck’s Early Childhood Council, giving parents, teachers and stakeholders a voice in early childcare.

Naugatuck Discovery is in the finishing stages of our 'Blueprint for Young Children,' which will be unveiled in early 2012.  The focus of Discovery's efforts are the health, safety and success of our early learners birth to age 8.  The blueprint follows our mission to help Naugatuck children succeed in all facets of their growth and development  by strengthening the community of families, individuals and organizations who nurture and educate Naugatuck children.  Discovery envisions Naugatuck as a town where children grow into happy and productive citizens contributing to the success of the community.