Our History

    PEP-Connections is a center that specializes in child development, education, counseling, and tutorial services. It is designed to assist parents and primary caregivers in their child's academic, social and physical growth. Its customers are intelligent, caring, and concerned individuals who want the best care and education for their children at an affordable price.

The company was incorporated in East Lansing, Michigan in 1996. After 8 years of previous educational training, experiences, and working with and training others, the proprietor, Dr. Bridget Plair, envisioned a center of her own.

Premier Enrichment Potential (PEP)-Connections is a holistic center whose primary focus is the upward mobility of its clientele. The four major program components are as follows:
(1) child development, (2) education, (3) tutorial services,
and (4) consulting.

The Child Development component's primary responsibility is the nurturing of children while providing care in a safe, healthy, and stimulating and aesthetically pleasing environment. This is accomplished through developmentally appropriate activities for children ages six weeks through 12 years. The center also offers lessons in child growth and development classes that are available to parents.

The Educational component provides quality educational curriculum that is age developmental and potential appropriate. This is accomplished through  introducing the participants to the latest computer technology and other educational resources which afford the participants an edge in their formative years.

The next component of the center is Tutorial Services that involve diagnostic academic measurements to assess the participants' strengths, weaknesses, needs and abilities. Contents areas are as follows: reading comprehension, language (oral and written), math, and test-taking/study skills. Tutoring is done in private one-on-one customized sessions by specially trained, qualified and experienced instructors aimed at improving the participants' study skills and enhancing self-confidence and thus increasing self-esteem. After hours tutoring is arranged for students up to high school age. Also available is a College Prep program with an emphasis on college entrance examinations such as the SAT and ACT.

The final component of the center is that of Consulting by assisting others to establish centers, businesses, and training in other areas - cities, counties, and states.

The Program Components are structured and sensitive to the participants' learning style. Employing integrated strategies and skills that will enable the participants to become more effective and efficient learners. Instructors and staff are qualified and specially trained to meet the challenges and goals of the center. PEP-Connections therefore, offers programs for profit, that are part and full-day child care, as well as preschool and elementary services with an emphasis on strengthening the family by employing an ecological framework and interfacing with other systems in the families' natural, human constructed, and human behavioral environments.