Educator · Principal · Founder
Raising the standard for what a kid walks into.
After school, at camp, in the Saturday class: millions of kids spend hours every week with adults who answer to no licensing body, no required training and no shared record. Parents assume someone checked. I’m Dr. Arielle Hammond. I led schools as a teacher and principal for over a decade, built Journey to STEAM across 75+ school sites, and founded enrops so every program for kids is safer to trust and simpler to run.
Ed.D. Principal at 24. 75+ school sites. 2,500+ students served. 95% partner renewal. One mission: safer programs for every kid.
The gap nobody owns.
Daycare has licensing. Schools have districts. Enrichment, the after-school programs, camps, classes and clubs families rely on every week, has no licensing body, no required training and no record that follows an adult from one program to the next.
What parents assume: that someone ran a background check, that it is still current, that the instructor was trained, and that the school or the park would know if anything were wrong.
What is actually true
Screening lives in a vendor agreement, a spreadsheet or someone’s inbox. Training is optional. Nothing follows an adult from one program to the next, and nobody sees the whole picture. Not the school, not the park, and not the parent at pickup.
Verified once. Trusted everywhere.
The fix is not more paperwork. It is a shared standard: every adult who works with kids screened once and kept current, training that is required instead of suggested, and a live record the school, the park and the parent can all see. One record, honored everywhere a kid walks in.
No single program can build that alone, and no single program has to. Schools, parks and recreation departments, PTAs, insurers and funders already decide which programs reach kids. When they ask for the same standard, every provider rises with them. That is the work I lead, and enrops is how I am building it.
Why I’m the one saying it
I have stood in every seat this question touches. I was the principal schools trusted with their children. I was the vendor bringing instructors into 75+ school buildings. I am the parent at pickup. I studied how children learn and earned an Ed.D. And when the tools to do this right did not exist, I built them. I know exactly where the cracks are, because I have stood in every one of them.
Safer for kids and simpler for the people who run their programs are not competing goals. I intend to prove they are the same one.
Bring this conversation to your room.
Keynotes, panels, board and leadership briefings, media and press. If your audience decides what kids walk into, I want to be in that room. Tell me what you have in mind; it comes straight to me.