Hmoob Cultural Center of Alaska

Hmoob Cultural Center of Alaska is Women Owned & Local Early Child Development Center, and we would like to extend a warm heart-felt welcome to you and your family.  Thank you for choosing us to assist with your child’s early education and care. We provide a learning-based environment with a developmentally age-appropriate curriculum.  We are dedicated to the values of respect and dignity for every child and their parent(s).  It is our goal to foster an environment that will help promote growing experiences by building confidence, positive self-esteem, cultural, and socialization skills, while also focusing on knowledge and independence.

Mission Statement: Hmoob Cultural Center of Alaska will provide language & cultural education for the next generation including teaching to embrace and strengthen our heritage. HCCofAK will provide quality childcare and learning experiences for children in a safe and caring environment, helping them develop socially, creatively, culturally, emotionally, physically, and intellectually. HCCofAK will strive to work cooperatively with the community. We take pride in our highly qualified teachers and in our communications throughout the center. We strive to provide a safe and nurturing environment where children can express their individuality, while we provide them with a variety of experiences and enhance their development. HCCofAK takes pride in its reputation and strives to uphold and promote values and principles, which encompass fairness and honesty to instill a life-long love for learning, while providing a nurturing atmosphere that helps promote self-image and self esteem in all children.

Core Purpose: Bilingual education provides opportunities for life! (Paub ntau yam lug rua kev kawm zoo rua lub neej yaav ntom ntej)

Goal Statement: Provide the kind of environment and influences that encourage all children to become creative, experience different cultures, independent, responsible, well rounded, and self-directed. Our desire is for excellence in meeting the needs of children and their families for nurturing, growth and development, relationships and understanding.

 Vision: Increase Hmong awareness in Alaska.

Core Values:
 1. Experience: learning and hands on with Hmong instruments, equipment, and anything with Hmong heritage.
2. Believe: We believe in ourselves, in our mission, and achieve our goals by supporting Hmong children and non-Hmong to learn the culture.
 3. Students: To guide and meet the needs of our students by encouraging our next generation to learn and engage Hmong heritance.
4. Accountability: students learn to be responsible for one’s action and to be resilient.
 5. Respect: Diversity in children and families