About Us

Our Mission

HEROS is designed to provide an enriching, safe and active after school experience for children in grades K through 6, while providing support and peace of mind to their parents and guardians. Our staff is dedicated to helping create real life “heros” by providing a well supervised, caring and instructional environment while instilling healthy values and good moral judgment. By offering homework help and a plethora of activities, we hope to encourage educational and recreational well-roundedness in our young “HEROS”.

Quality Care & Professional Staff

The program director attends a minimal of 30 hours of professional training every two years. All staff members participate in trainings as well, with their credit hour requirement respective to the number of hours they work. At all times, at least one staff member on duty has a current CPR and First Aid certification. In keeping with the mission to provide a well-supervised and safe recreational environment, at minimum, a 1:10 teacher to student ratio is always maintained.

Karen Valentine

Director

Karen is the owner and creator of the After School HEROS program.

Prior to its start-up in 2012, Karen was providing child care out of her home in addition to working as a personal trainer. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education and has 20 plus years’ experience providing personal fitness and nutrition instruction. She has managed multiple gyms and taught group exercise classes, including youth tennis lessons. Karen has two children of her own, and continues to work as a personal trainer today.

Read More Close

Brooke Moll

Teacher

"Miss Brooke” has worked as a teacher at HEROS since 2020.

She is an F-P alumni and actually attended HEROS herself back when she was in 5th and 6th grade. On occasion, she and Mrs. Valentine both find humor in seeing the “tables turned” now. Brooke is currently pursuing a degree in Exercise Science, and outside of her studies and HEROS, she babysits and enjoys college campus life. She is very caring, considerate and good-natured. She is also very well-rounded and immerses herself into the kids’ activities, helping them with crafts, sports, imaginative play, and everything in between. She has earned the nicknames of “Miss Ducky Brooke” and “The Human Tape Dispenser”. Everyone just loves her and her down to earth and fun-loving spirit.

Read More Close

Keegan Moskov

Teacher

Keegan joined the HEROS staff team in early 2022.

He is working toward a degree in Early Elementary Education. He’ll have a classroom of his own in due time, likely teaching 1st or 2nd grade. Prior to working at HEROS, Keegan worked at another after school program and did substitute teaching. During the summer, he also works with kids as a camp counselor. He loves the outdoors and thoroughly enjoys the children. He’ll tell you himself that he’s a big kid at heart. He is very interactive, playful, full of imagination, and fun. The kids just adore him.

Read More Close