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Welcome to

Papillon 
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The Little Blue Stars Program

Introduction to Papillon & The Little Blue Stars Program

My name is Hermien Schuttenbeld. I have a background is in Early Childhood Development and Occupational Therapy. Working with children has been the red line through my life. When I started having my own children and ended up doing various activities with my first child, I figured I may as well get a few more friends to join for his social benefit.  

This is how in 2005 the Little Blue Stars Preschool Program started a few mornings and afternoons a week. In 2010 due to personal circumstances, I had to make rapid changes and decided to operate as a full-time day home, providing more hours of care for children and parents.  

While operating the day home these last 6 years, I recognized that various parents wanted their children to participate in preschool. The challenges that I saw with my day home parents was the going back and forth transportation for their the children, and the children having to adapt and go back between two environments.  Some parents just decided due to these difficulty not to send their children to preschool, to avoid all the extra stress. 

I came to the conclusion that it would make sense to operate as a Preschool - Day Care Combination.   This did resolve these issues.

Since September 2023 I started working with the DAVAR agency, to be able to to offer families the government subsidies that is now available.. I learned that under this agency, each day home operates the same programming as how preschool operate. So there was little change to make to the PLBS program. The agency has a library allowing for additional learning materials.