About MCPC
Our Story
Every collaborative starts with a conversation. For MCPC, it was this one:
โWhat if care itself could be an aid to life?โ
At MCPC, we bring together a deep fluency in how prepared environments unlock growth with the daily, hands-on reality of caring for aging adults and people living with dementia and disability. A fluency in what real families and care communities actually need. Where other frameworks see limitation, we see possibility. Where the field defaults to managing decline, we ask how to build environments where people can still grow, contribute, and thrive.
Montessori Care Partner Collaborative is what happened when that conversation became a commitment. A partnership dedicated to carrying Dr. Montessori's aid to life into every circumstance where care is needed.
Mission
The Montessori Care Partner Collaborative brings Dr. Montessori's vision of education as an aid to life into dementia, disability, and aging care. We prepare care partners, families, support staff, and practitioners to create environments where every person can grow, contribute, and thrive, because possibility doesn't end with age or ability.
Possibility Care
A Montessori Strength-Based Approach
For care partners, families, and care communities ready for a new way of seeing. Possibility Care offers practical, possibility-driven, strength-based guidance, rooted in Montessori's aid to life, for anyone caring for someone living with dementia, disability, or aging, at every age and every ability.
Meet the Team
Paige Krabill
Dr. Paige Krabill is a Clinical Psychologist and AMI-trained Montessori educator.
As Managing Member of the Montessori Care Partner Collaborative, she brings a clinical and developmental psychology lens that shapes how practitioners understand behavior, communication, and the capacity of every person in their care.
Melissa Crenshaw
Melissa Crenshaw has spent over 20 years inside Montessori environments, from toddler communities to elder care settings.
As Founder of Community Casa Care Partner Services and Managing Member of MCPC, she brings the kind of grounded, cross-lifespan experience that only comes from having lived this work at every stage.
Margaret Jarrell
Margaret Jarrell is an AMI Trainer for Montessori for Dementia, Disability and Aging and she teaches every live session of the Practitioners Certification Course.
She trained directly under Jennifer Brush, spent ten years as a consultant with Brush Development, and has spent years since coaching educators and healthcare professionals in applying Montessori philosophy to enhance quality of life for older adults and people living with dementia.
What she brings to each live session is not theory. It is deep, practiced experience with this work.
Partnerships
Jennifer Brush & Brush Development
The MDDA programming MCPC delivers is built on the work of Jennifer Brush and Brush Development, whose research has advanced Montessori-based approaches to dementia, disability, and aging care.
PDK Educational Consulting
Founded by Dr. Paige Krabill, PDK Educational Consulting brings AMI Montessori training and Clinical Psychology expertise to MCPC's approach to teaching and supporting care partners. Her Power of Possibility framework guides the strength-based approach integrated in MCPC courses and supports offered to care partners.
Community Casa Care Partner Services
Founded by Melissa Crenshaw, Community Casa Care Partner Services grounds MCPC in the everyday, hands-on practice of possibility caregiving in community-based care. AMI-trained with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals across the lifespan, Melissa brings deep Montessori grounding to how aid to life is lived out in the daily rhythms of care.
MCPC offers AMI approved courses through AMI MDDA trainers and in collaboration with AMI training centers.
You found this for a reason
The person you care for deserves to be seen for all that is possible. Capable, purposeful, full of possibility at every age and every ability. And as their care partner, you deserve tools and a community equal to what this asks of you.
Enroll in the AMI MDDA Introductory Course