Meet the Staff
Brown Family
In 2016, when we opened as a Registered In Home Family Child Care, we had a 1 year old and were expecting our second child. Vanessa always had a dream of running her own child care and having the privilege to stay home with her children. Her dream has grown and expanded into present day Little Swans Child Care. While their family grew by one more child in 2019, so did the child care program. In 2018, we expanded our program and became a Certified In Home Family Child Care accepting 16 children from our community into our home and hearts.
Vanessa has decided to make a career out of being a child care provider. She strives to operate a structured family centered program with the children's best interest at heart. She has dedicated herself to creating a learning environment that children thrive and are challenged in. She is always working to improve the program while preparing children for public school or homeschool.
Vanessa Brown
Owner/Provider
Vanessa has 20+ years of professional experience with children but has always been the caretaker/mothering figure even before professional caretaking.
At a young age, Vanessa started as a mom's helper to her neighbor, her job was to play with their little so that mom could perform normal housekeeping tasks without interruption. From this job, Vanessa began watching neighborhood children and friends children more frequently. All through High School Vanessa babysat and had an extensive list of families that she worked for regularly.
In college, Vanessa became a nanny. She was a live-in nanny as well as a non-live-in nanny.
Vanessa has worked as a paraprofessional for the Butte Valley School District and Klamath Falls City School District.
When Vanessa welcomed her first child, it was VERY important to Vanessa to spend her time with her children helping them grow, learn, and develop the skills needed to be successful in life. At this point, Vanessa and her ex-husband began working to buy a home in town that would make owning and running an in-home child care easier. In November of 2016, Vanessa opened her dream in-home child care. Adding 2 more children to the family and the business evolving to what it is today has been a fun learning process, growth process and experience for Vanessa.
Vanessa is continuing her education and working on completing her Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education. Vanessa graduated in March 2024 from Klamath Community College with the goal of transferring to Southern Oregon University or Eastern Oregon University in Fall 2024. Vanessa is also always seeking continuing education through community trainers, she was recently awarded a Step 9 in the Child Care Oregon Registry Online.
When Vanessa is not doing child care she can be found running her 3 children to various activities, taking them on adventures, and spending time outdoors with them. For an escape, Vanessa can often be found at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
Payton DeLong
Assistant II/Sub-Provider
Payton has been babysitting since a young age. She started her professional career in child care working at a center in 2021. While working her way up from Assistant to teacher Payton continued to seek education in child development. While working at Little Swans Child Care, Payton will grow her educational portfolio and experience with children of all ages and ability levels.
Payton is a huge asset to Little Swans Child Care. She is very organized, helpful, loving, reliable, and protective. Since working at Little Swans all the children have fallen in love with Payton and grown to have a strong bond with her.
Payton has an almost 2 year old son. When Payton is not at work she can be found spending time with her family. As a family they enjoy fishing, hunting, and riding ATV's.
