Child Care Programs
Nursery
Transition Classroom
Transition Classroom
Infants ages 2 weeks-12months
Transition Classroom
Transition Classroom
Transition Classroom
Infants transition to table food, sleeping on cots, crawling, and walking on their own with hard-soled shoes.
Toddlers
Transition Classroom
Toddlers
Children ages 12 months and walking- two years.
Two's
Early Preschool
Toddlers
Children ages 2 years-3 years. Potty training focused classrooms.
Early Preschool
Early Preschool
Early Preschool
Children ages 2 1/2 years-3 years and potty training.
Preschool
Early Preschool
Early Preschool
Children ages 3 years and potty trained- 5 years. We teach basic curriculum to prepare for kindergarten, based on the KS Early Learning Standards.
Family Background
Family First Child Care is owned and operated by Courtney and Steven Cantrell. They have three sons of their own and live in Wichita. Steven is a licensed commercial electrician while Courtney has been a child care director since 2009 in Sedgwick and Harvey Counties with an unlimited capacity KS director's certification and bachelor's degree in Psychology; working in a variety of center types such as the YMCA, KinderCare Learning Centers, and Asbury Station in Newton. By combining experience in commercial maintenance, non-profit, and corporate child care and education, the hope is for our centers to provide the care needed for local working families and their children.
Our management team is also family based. Our HR accountant, Kim, is also in relation to Courtney & Steven. Kim holds her own KS director's certification of up to 100 children capacity and master's degree in Business Administration.
Codi, our director holds an unlimited director's certification by KDHE and a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education. Kenzi, the assistant director holds a director's certification from KDHE for up to 100 children.
We provide a solid, hard working team to serve the children and their families each day.
Welcome to our family!
Facility History
215 N Meridian was built in 2003 as Sunshine Academy by the original owners, which started out in the smaller building across the street. The original couple and their children, eventually retired, making Sunshine Academy a non-profit center managed by a board of trustees with a program director. In September of 2017 the director left and the building closed due to financial hardships. After months of planning, the building was purchased and re-branding as Family First Child Care. This was the first location for our company with the goal of providing quality, safe child care for as many children as we can in Harvey County.
