Early Childhood Development and Education Center

The first five years of a child’s life are the most critical in terms of development. It is during this time that 90 percent of a child’s brain growth occurs, accompanied by the cognitive development that often determines the course of the child’s future.

Yet, for many children, those critical years are spent just trying to survive.

The Early Childhood Development and Education Center offers these young children and their families hope when they have nowhere else to turn. Ensuring that all children get the proper start in life is the goal that has been driving the Early Childhood Development and Education Center, formerly PACT, since 1981.

Lend Your Support to the Early Childhood Development and Education Center

When you give to the Early Childhood Development and Education Center, you are helping to ensure that the most vulnerable, young children will be able to receive the care, early intervention and education services that will help them develop and thrive. Without your support, the families we serve would have nowhere else to turn for specialized child care and family support.

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Overview of Our Services:

Child Care

World of Care (WOC) is a child care program accredited by Maryland Excels with a Quality Rating of 5. It offers developmentally appropriate educational programming for children with and without disabilities who may have medical needs and/or developmental delays and may require on-site, early intervention therapeutic services.

Early Head Start

Southeast Early Head Start (SEEHS): Southeast Early Head Start is a federally funded Head Start program serving children zero to three years of age and their families.

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Pre-K Classrooms

Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Early Learning Classrooms (ELC) comprise a unique learning center that provides comprehensive, family-centered education to children ages 3 to 5.