Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc history

1977: The agency received a two-year contract with the City of Dallas to recruit and train child care workers for placement in community child care centers, funded by CETA. Pointer Street Child Care Center and day homes were added to the agency, bringing the service level to more than 800 children.

1985: The Wilene Dade Training Center opened, featuring model child care settings for centers and home-based child care.

1992: The Pearl C. Anderson Child Development Center in Garland, Texas, was named one of the 10 best in the country by Child Magazine.

1997: Relationship-Centered Child Care was featured on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings as a solution to America’s child care crisis. “Friends of the Child Care Group” was co-founded by Regen Horchow and Sally Maxson.

2000: The US Department of Health and Human Service awarded The Child Care Group an Early Head Start grant, enabling the organization to expand its services for infants and toddlers and to reach out to expectant parents.

2003: The family child care program was discontinued; the UMC and Bock renovations were completed; the first Early Head Start federal PRISM review took place; and ChildCareGroup closed its center at its headquarters due to lack of enrollment.

2005: Susan Hoff was hired to serve as the President/CEO of ChildCareGroup.

2007: Three TEEM classrooms in two of ChildCareGroup’s child development centers received the State’s new preschool certification, “School Ready” Award.

2012: ChildCareGroup relocated its administrative offices to One Mockingbird Plaza and redesigned the agency logo with the tagline, “Nurturing the Great in every child.”

2016: The Born Learning home visiting program expanded to Plano and McKinney, and an additional office was opened in Plano.