Meet The Founder
Meet The Founder
Brook Fletcher, Ed.S.
Brook Fletcher is the founder of Inspired Horizons and the operator behind A Mother’s Touch Family Child Care and Inspire Horizons Academy. She came to Fayetteville, North Carolina, at nineteen years old and built her education, career, family, and early childhood leadership in the same community she now serves.
With more than twenty years of experience in early childhood education, Brook has worked across licensed family child care, center-based operations, corporate child care leadership, and Department of Defense child care environments at Fort Bragg. Her career includes leadership roles with Sunshine House and KinderCare, along with hands-on experience in compliance, staffing, curriculum, family engagement, and the daily realities of operating high-quality child care programs.
A Mother’s Touch, Brook’s founding licensed Family Child Care Home, became the original proof of concept for Inspired Horizons. Its consistency, family relationships, and demand helped shape Brook’s belief that family child care should be treated as serious early childhood infrastructure, not a fallback option.
Brook’s commitment to this work is deeply personal. As the mother of a daughter with profound autism, she understands what it means to search for care where a child is truly seen, supported, and safe. That experience shaped the inclusive, relationship-centered framework behind Inspired Horizons and continues to guide how she builds programs for children, families, and providers.
In 2024, Brook attended the Pentagon Hall of Heroes for the signing of a Department of Defense intergovernmental support agreement, among only two women of color present for that historic event. She holds an Education Specialist degree in Early Childhood Education and continues to operate, build, and advocate for child care systems that support families, providers, military communities, and the broader workforce.
Brook’s husband is a disabled veteran, and her family’s connection to Fort Bragg runs deep. That connection is reflected in her commitment to building child care solutions that meet families where they are and strengthen the communities they call home.
From One Program to a Child Care Network
Brook’s journey began in the daily work of caring for children, leading classrooms, supporting families, and learning exactly where child care systems break down. What started with one trusted family child care home has grown into a broader mission: building early childhood programs, provider pathways, and community-based systems that make high-quality child care more accessible and sustainable.
Her work now extends beyond local program operations into national early childhood advocacy. Brook was selected to serve on the NAFCC Policy Council, bringing the voice of family child care, provider infrastructure, and community-based child care expansion into broader policy conversations. Through Inspired Horizons, she continues to build from the ground up: one program, one provider, one family, and one system at a time.