December is Books & Bears Time!  

You or your group can donate gifts as part of a Sheltering Arms holiday tradition for our children!  Learn more...

Teach Today, Reach Tomorrow.

Our $10M campaign is gaining steam, raising money for child care tuition scholarships,

teacher development, and new, expanded facilities.

See why it's important!

Take a Virtual Tour!

Let our pint-size tour guides show you what they love about their Sheltering Arms school!  See the video...

Check out more great videos on the Sheltering Arms YouTube channel.

Have you seen our latest annual report?

Thank You Operation StoryBook Supporters!

In September, more than 800 volunteers shared books and stories at all 16 Sheltering Arms centers and sponsors helped us to raise $100,000!  Watch our video thank you:

Contact us for other volunteer opportunities.

Sheltering Arms is metro Atlanta’s oldest nonprofit child care provider and one of its most respected. Our mission is to serve working families with high quality, affordable child care and education and comprehensive support services, as well as to provide professional development for early childhood educators and community outreach. Sheltering Arms is a non-profit organization. 

We serve more than 3,600 children each year, ages six weeks to five years old, and their families, in 16 child care centers in seven counties. 

Our child care centers are located in the following metro Atlanta counties:
Clayton Jonesboro Cobb Marietta (2)  DeKalb Atlanta Chamblee East Lake	Douglas Douglasville Fulton Atlanta (2) College Park (2) East Point Union City	Gwinnett Lawrenceville (2) Norcross	View a map of our Atlanta locations!