Case Study: Ravenswood Early Learning Transforms Family Access to Early Childhood Education with Avela Explore

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In East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park, families searching for early childhood programs faced a frustrating paradox: they couldn’t find care, while providers couldn’t fill seats. Ravenswood Early Learning set out to change that.

By partnering with Avela to launch Avela Explore, Ravenswood introduced a centralized, family-friendly platform that helps parents easily search for and evaluate local early childhood programs — from licensing ages to language preferences and subsidy options.

The result? A dramatic shift in access and visibility across 38 providers, with families discovering programs they never knew existed and providers seeing more inquiries and enrollments. For a community where over 50% of children entered TK with no prior care experience, Avela Explore is already making a measurable impact — and offers a scalable model for communities everywhere.

👉 Read the full case study to see how Ravenswood made early childhood access more equitable, intuitive, and effective.