Jubilee JumpStart is located within a low-income, urban housing project in Adams Morgan where most of its families live. Children from 75% of families receive subsidy support while 25% of children come from families that pay full tuition. This ensures a socio-economically diverse community that enriches the lives of all involved.
The center was designed with a high staff-to-child ratio (1 to 3 for infants and toddlers and 1 to 6 for preschoolers). This ensures that each child is provided the intensive attention required for a strong start in life.
Parents are supported by a home visitor who helps solve immediate practical problems, who assists parents in learning how to support their child’s early development, and who helps foster a secure and healthy relationship between parent and child.
Jubilee JumpStart uses the nationally known, research-based Creative Curriculum. The Creative Curriculum was developed by Teaching Strategies, Inc. based in Bethesda, Maryland with whom Jubilee JumpStart has a strategic partnership to become a model center.
The Creative Curriculum includes an online assessment system designed to monitor each child’s development and to help his/her teachers provide appropriate learning experiences at the right time. Additionally, the curriculum integrates Learning Games, a series of teacher-child and parent-child learning experiences that build a bridge between home and center.
The Jubilee JumpStart’s focus on early language and literacy is enhanced by having at least one English and one Spanish-speaking teacher in each classroom. This dual language approach serves as a bridge for the many immigrant families whose children attend the program and helps honor and support the child’s home language and culture.
Jubilee JumpStart is able to sustain a concentrated focus on the emotional needs of children, parents, and staff through a unique partnership with the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and the Washington School of Psychiatry. Professionals associated with both institutions provide pro bono support for children and parents in and outside the classroom. These professionals also hold weekly meetings with small groups of teachers, offering two psychoanalysts for each group of five teachers. Additionally, teachers are financially supported and encouraged to attend a two year intensive infant observation curriculum. 
