BrightPath Westlake Child Care Center
Our daycare program offers a wonderful child care environment where children are encouraged to explore and learn both inside and outside the classroom. Each child at our daycare is supported in every way to ensure happiness and success in the early years of development.The BrightPath daycare center is located at Center Ridge Road in Westlake offers care for children aged 6 weeks to 12 years old. Our state-of-the-art center is designed to provide a warm and nurturing environment for children with a perfect blend of child-led programming and an award-winning curriculum. We ensure every child's cognitive, social, and physical needs are met. Our passionate team of caregivers creates a safe and engaging space where children can explore, learn, and grow. Trust us to provide top-notch care that
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4655 Bradley Road Westlake OH 44145
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Open 6:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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Call for Enrollment: 330.267.0220
Center Programs
Our age-specific programs provide enriching experiences tailored to each stage of early development. Click on the program below to learn more information.
Infant (6 Weeks - 18 Months)
Our infant program provides a warm, nurturing environment where caregivers form close bonds with babies, ensuring a secure and trusting relationship. Each infant follows their own schedule, with individualized care routines for feeding, sleeping, and play. Our educators support early development through sensory exploration, attachment-based play, and language-rich interactions, including the introduction of basic American Sign Language (ASL).
Key Focus Areas:
- Building secure attachments with primary caregivers
- Encouraging free exploration and movement
- Facilitating play that supports sensory and cognitive development
- Respecting each infant’s natural rhythms and routines
Toddler (18 Months - 3 Years)
Toddlers are naturally curious, energetic, and eager to explore. Our toddler program fosters independence while encouraging language development and social-emotional growth. Through hands-on activities, play-based learning, and structured routines, toddlers gain foundational skills for future learning.
Key Focus Areas:
- Supporting independence (self-feeding, dressing, potty training)
- Expanding language and communication through ASL and verbal expression
- Encouraging social-emotional growth through cooperative play
- Sensory experiences, music, and movement to enhance cognitive development
Preschool (3-4 Years)
Preschoolers are eager learners, exploring their world with curiosity and excitement. Our preschool program builds upon their natural interests, incorporating early literacy, math, science, and creative expression into their daily routines. Play-based learning helps children develop problem-solving skills, creativity, and social connections.
Key Focus Areas:
- Developing early literacy and numeracy skills
- Encouraging creative expression through art, music, and dramatic play
- Building independence and confidence in learning
- Enhancing social and problem-solving skills through group activities
Pre-K (4-5 Years)
The pre-K program prepares children for kindergarten through hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences. Children develop literacy and math skills, engage in STEM activities, and practice self-regulation and collaboration. Our play-based approach ensures learning remains joyful and meaningful.
Key Focus Areas:
- Strengthening pre-reading, writing, and numeracy skills
- Hands-on STEM exploration (science, technology, engineering, and math)
- Fostering independence, confidence, and self-regulation
- Encouraging social responsibility and problem-solving skills
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Center Offerings
Subsidy
Music
Parking
Healthy Meals & Snacks
Qualified Educators
Yoga
Dance & Movement
Military Discount
Our Center Directors can provide more information regarding financial assistance and they can assist you with the process as well.
Our music program offers a researched, systematic approach to nurturing children's social skills and musical development, including singing in tune and rhythmic coordination.
Conveniently nestled amidst ample parking, our center ensures stress-free drop-offs and pickups for our valued families.
We support children’s healthy growth by providing nutritious, scratch-made meals developed with guidance from a Registered Dietitian. Our menu uses fresh, often local ingredients, rotates every four weeks, and changes seasonally for variety. Centers are nut-free, and the team works closely with families to accommodate allergies, sensitivities, and cultural or medical dietary needs.
Our Educators are passionate about delivering early years education that empowers and inspires children to create their futures.
Our Yoga program enriches our preschool curriculum, fostering young minds and bodies for lifelong mental and physical well-being through fun, themed sessions.
Our dance programs blend solid technique with fun and creative choreography, fostering both technical skill and expressive, individualistic style in our little ones.
We're proud to offer a standard 10% U.S. military discount for families in active duty as our way of saying thank you for your service!
Center Director
Kelly Yahner has been dedicated to enriching the lives of young children since 2012 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, graduating summa cum laude from The University of Toledo. Throughout her career, she has led toddler and preschool classrooms and has been utilizing that hands-on experience in her leadership role as a center director for nearly a decade. She is passionate about fostering meaningful partnerships among families, educators, and administrators to give
Award-Winning Culture
We’re proud to be recognized as a winner of the 2025 Culture at Work Award, a 2025 Silver Stevie® Award in Consumer Services recipient, and the winner of the 2024 Kudos Culture Leader Award. We strive every day to provide top-level support to our staff at over 250 daycare locations throughout the United States and Canada.
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