Carriage House for Children

Carriage House is a local non-profit preschool and early intervention program.  Our mission is to create an inclusive, natural, nurturing, and safe environment where children of all abilities can thrive.  Through hands-on learning and embedded early intervention, we foster curiosity, connection, and social/emotional growth.  Our individualized whole child approach ensures that every child feels valued, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential.

Since 1969, Carriage House has been providing educational and therapeutic programming to children in our community.  Today, we offer the following two programs:

1. The Inclusive Preschool provides exemplary early childhood education within a safe and nurturing environment.  Nationally recognized curriculum with a hands-on learning emphasis is used to assist in fully preparing each child for kindergarten.  This inclusive setting fosters awareness, empathy, and kindness at a young age.
2. The Endeavor Program is the clinical arm of Carriage House and provides group and individual applied behavior analysis for children with autism and other special needs.  This therapeutic natural group environment is supervised by Board Certified Behavior Analysts and led by Registered Behavior Technicians with extensive experience in early intervention and child development.

Families quickly learn that options for early intervention in our community are limited, resulting in substantial waiting lists.  Unfortunately, Carriage House is no different.  There are currently over 100 special needs children on our waiting list.  In an effort to meet community need, Carriage House is expanding!  This 5,100 square foot expansion will provide access to an additional 50 children each year.  Your support of Carriage House during Give for Good Louisville will help to ensure that we are able to open our expansion in January 2025.  

To learn more about Carriage House, our history and our mission, please watch this video.