Community United Child Care Centers history

1998 LVCC established the Program Enrichment Fund to support educational and cultural field trips.

2001 Board member Marlene “Linny” Fowler established the Fowler Education Fund at LVCC to support professional development and innovative classroom projects.

2003 LVCC began an Endowment Campaign, co-chaired by Linny Fowler and Elmer Gates.

2007 Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts was established by the Office of Child Development and Early Learning to provide state-funded pre-kindergarten for at-risk children, ages 3 – 5.

2008 LVCC was the largest CACFP sponsor in the Pennsylvania, serving more than 650 providers in 22 counties.

2009 By unanimous vote of the LVCC Board of Directors, Lehigh Valley Child Care changed its name to “Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers,” retaining the well-known initials “LVCC.”

ALBA and the Promise of Cooperative Development December 01, 2010

How to Cite this Article (APA Format): Michel, S. (2011). The history of child care in the United States Social Welfare History Project.

December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history.

Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

2015 LVCC partnered with the Easton Area School District to operate a Pre-K Counts classroom in a district school.

2018 LVCC served 1,300 children at 30 locations: ten full-service centers, school-based before- and after-school programs in six school districts, a teen parent program, a dual-language preschool, and Pre-K Counts classrooms in area schools, including LVCC’s first classrooms in Carbon County.