Menagerie Child Care
Presents:
Menagerie Mindset
And
Menagerie Cottage
Welcome to our unique daycare and training program! We specialize in equipping providers to serve both diagnosed and pre-diagnosed students. Our community is built on firsthand experience navigating local systems, allowing us to collaborate with professionals to create tailored training sessions. Childcare professionals can count on us for the support and consultations they need to excel in their roles.
Menagerie Services
Menagerie Child Care provides practical training, consultation, and support designed to help childcare professionals build stronger relationships with children, families, staff, and community resources.
Menagerie services focus on making complex developmental, behavioral, and systems-based concepts understandable and usable in everyday care.
Through the Menagerie Mindset, providers learn to observe more carefully, respond with intention, strengthen communication, identify unmet support needs, and create environments that move children and families toward greater connection, regulation, and participation.
Professional Development Training
Practical, engaging professional development designed for childcare providers and educators. Menagerie trainings turn developmental concepts into usable strategies that strengthen communication, build relationships, support responsive care, and give providers tools they can confidently integrate into everyday practice.
Family Support Integration
Practical support that helps childcare programs connect families with appropriate resources, services, and community networks. Menagerie helps providers strengthen the bridge between home, care, and community—creating coordinated support that reduces isolation and helps families thrive.
Provider Consultation
Personalized consultation for childcare programs navigating developmental, behavioral, communication, or operational challenges. Menagerie works collaboratively with providers to understand their unique needs, identify practical strategies, and adapt supportive approaches that integrate naturally into their existing program and practice.
Adventure with Menagerie Child Care
This program is like no other. Menagerie Mindset is a growing training program that believes childhood should be fun and adventurous, filled with whimsy and structure. Caring for children should be just as much fun. If this sounds like a good fit for you, contact us for more information
Team
Michelle Gregor Mendiola
"Ms. Michelle"
Michelle Gregor Mendiola is the founder of Menagerie Child Care LLC, a Kansas-approved early childhood training, education, and consulting organization focused on practical, relationship-based approaches to childcare.
Her work centers on helping experienced providers better understand behavior, emotional regulation, neurodiversity, communication, autonomy, and the systems that shape both child and caregiver well-being. Drawing from years of direct childcare experience, program leadership, business ownership, and specialized training through the Kansas LEND program, Michelle develops advanced trainings designed to translate research and best practices into strategies providers can immediately use in real childcare environments.
Her approach is grounded in a few core beliefs: play comes first, behavior is communication, relationships matter, and supporting the adults in the room is essential to supporting the children in it.
Through Menagerie Mindset Trainings, Michelle now focuses on professional development, provider support, consulting, and creating more sustainable, responsive systems of care.
