Anne Hicks-Bleecker
Co-owner & Educarer
Anne has worked with children since her first college job at the University Childcare Center in 1991. Over the years she has been a children’s swim instructor, nanny, Girl Scout troop leader, preschool teacher and toddler teacher. Anne received both her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business & Management and Master of Arts degree in Education at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After spending 15 years in corporate America teaching adults, she returned to school taking Early Childhood courses at Moorpark College and started teaching at CVUSD in their preschool program and most recently their toddler program. She lives in Thousand Oaks with her wife, two children and dogs.
Jenn Greenaway
Co-owner & Educarer
Jenn has worked with children for over fifteen years, from kindergarten and elementary school-aged children to infants and toddlers. She has taught preschool, served as director of before and after-school programs and summer camps, led parent-and-child programs for toddlers, and most recently worked for CVUSD as the lead of their infant program for eight years. Jenn studied Child Development at Moorpark College and the University of LaVerne. She is a Mentor Teacher with the California Mentor Teacher Program and the President of the Ventura County Chapter of the California Association for the Education of Young Children. Jenn also serves on the Local Planning Council of Ventura County, representing Providers. She lives in Thousand Oaks with her husband and many pets.
Home-away-from-home.
803 Camino Flores, Thousand Oaks, CA.
We’re proud of the unique business model we have adopted with our extended family for serving our community. For two years, Nature’s Explorers was a family childcare that was based in Anne’s home. When we outgrew this space, the Cravitz family generously offered us the opportunity to partner with them and dad Phil became the Licensee with Community Care Licensing. In their home in an unincorporated section of Thousand Oaks, we have dedicated indoor and outdoor childcare spaces as well as shared spaces where we care for goats and chickens. The Cravitz home is also the base of operations for Apollo’s ARC Animal Rescue & Care and we are happy to partner with them to provide temporary care for small animals when needed.
This partnership supports our mission of relationship-based care which places empathy and compassion at the heart of all we do.
