The mission of Ms. P’s is to provide and inclusive learning environment where all children, parents and caregivers feel welcomed, respected and valued as we enhance youth learning potential.
Ms. P’s Child & Families Service consists of a mother daughter team dedicated to the care of children. We have been in business for over 18 years and have been caring for children with special needs for over 25 years with outstanding results and success stories. The children that leave our program are able to adjust to society.
We work closely with other providers and stake-holders of infants, toddlers, and other children program caring for children with special needs to comply with all the current and up-to-date programs, technology, rules and regulations governing the District of Columbia daycare centers, and head-start programs.
Our business was started when it was hard for me to find a good quality child care center for my children. After a year of searching we become up-set with the limited resources DC has for childcare. Most of the centers were overcrowded and the were always full. We then realized that in order to solve the problem we need to become the solution. This is how we started our daycare facilities. Instead of being upset about the problem with become involved to solving the problem. We have been successful and happy with the outcome of each infant and toddler that leaves Ms P’s for head-start or pre-school.
Our goal is to provide all children in our care, a clean, healthy, safe, comfortable, environment where infants and toddler’s can play and learn. We believe in the value of both structured and flexible schedules. The most important priority is from each child to have FUN while learning.
Angelique Marshall is a home-based family childcare provider, early childhood educator, advocate for children with special needs, certified trainer for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, entrepreneur, and a mother of a daughter with disabilities. Even with thirty years of experience under her belt, Mrs. Marshall did not expect COVID-19 to impact her life the way that it did. When more than 400+ childcare homes and centers closed in March 2020 to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak, Mrs. Marshall kept Ms. P’s Child & Family Services open to help families who desperately needed her, as most of her parents are essential workers. Ms. P’s Child & Family Services is one of forty-seven front-line child-care providers who stayed open in the district and fill in the gap of ensuring early childhood education for children of essential workers in response to Mayor Bowser’s Declaration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
She had to quickly adapt to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) childcare guidelines to make sure that she was following necessary protocol to ensure the health and safety. For instance, the first step that Ms. Marshall made was requiring families who enter Ms. P’s to wear a mask, place plastic coverings over their shoes, and sanitize their hands upon entry. After the seven children in her care leave each evening, she washes and disinfects the sheets they napped on, the clothes they wore, and the toys they touched.
Mrs. Marshall holds an AA in Early Childhood Education, a minor in Business Management and BA in Human Development. When she’s not caring for the District of Columbia’s littlest residents, she’s continuing her pursuit of higher education in a dual masters’ program in Mental and Rehabilitation Health at the University of the District of Columbia. Angelique has 5 adult children: Tomica, Tanisha, Takia, Taylor, and Leon. She was employed by the Federal Government for over 18 years before deciding to care for her daughter full-time and invest more in the special need’s community. Ms. Marshall has coordinated and developed techniques to execute her daughter’s IEP, ISP, and behavioral plans. She’s testified before the D.C. Council on disciplinary actions toward children and adults with special needs in the court system. In addition, she has been featured in several educational videos in the public related to special needs services and programs. In 2014, Mrs. Marshall was honored with an accommodation from the Baltimore City Council for her service with the special need’s community. Ms. Marshall works with Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development on the Disabilities Partnership to coordinate transition supports for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities and feels strongly that social and emotional developmental needs of children matters.
Ms. Marshall is recognized as a leader in special education, childcare, and advocacy throughout the broader DC area. Mrs. Marshall has dedicated most of her career to serving and mentoring inner-city children who tend to get left out of the system for a variety of reasons. She has always had a big heart for all children. Thus, being an active contributing member to society she was inspired! Her expertise and vision allowed her to open her own home-based care to support the needs of the community where quality-care and family involvement are addressed and supported. She’s been highlighted in The Washington Post, AP News, YahooLife! amongst other news articles vocalizing the needs of childcare and healthy industry. Most recently, she was featured on a virtual panel with Stacey Abrams talking about the need to put care in the economy by investing in childcare workers and programs and the $100 billion needed to stabilize the U.S. childcare system. As a leader and advocate, Mrs. Speight-Marshall will continue to break down barriers where the primal values equity and racial justice are at the forefront.