Last week, Tiny Tots Development Center celebrated the opening of its newest facility – The Helen Hicks Building (below) in the Othello neighborhood. Established in the Rainier Valley in 1969, Tiny Tots Development Center (TTDC) provides child care services and early childhood education at several sites throughout South Seattle. Its main campus (above) – located at 8302 Renton Avenue South – is the organization’s largest site.
Seven long years in the making, the new campus is named after Tiny Tots founder and CEO Helen Hicks – known affectionately throughout the community as “Mama Hicks” (cutting the ribbon below).
Executive Director Angelia Maxie (below) welcomed friends, family and guests, including the fathers of former students who attended the Main Campus more than 25 years ago and are now attending college, teaching English abroad and raising their own families.
The school’s bright new building was made possible with assistance from the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, the City of Seattle, Bank of America and others.
The Tiny Tots-Bright Bell Birds program and an Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) preschool program will move in this summer and begin educational programs in the new building in September 2010.
Meanwhile, Tiny Tots Main, the site of our original program, will continue to house preschool, infant care, and childcare at 8302 1/2 Renton Avenue South (below).
Tiny Tots Development Center has four south-end sites:
- Tiny Tots Development Center – Main (8302 1/2 Renton Ave. S.)
- Tiny Tots Gentle Dragons at Wing Luke Elementary School (3701 S. Kenyon St.)
- Tiny Tots Excelling Eagles at Emerson (9709 60th Ave. S.)
- Tiny Tots Bright Bell Birds / Tiny Tots East Campus (Helen Hicks Building, 8318 Renton Ave. S.)
They also conduct the after-school Community Learning Center program at Van Asselt Elementary School on Beacon Hill.
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thank you for the coverage, this is just wonderful
thank you so very much for your interest in the tinytots programs we thank you very much for your being there and for your coverage of the great day rev james hicks
It been along time coming, but thank God we are here, WE have enjoyed the many families that we have touched their lives, and they have touched ours
Hey man where was this place when I was seven years old? Kids are so utterly spoiled these days!!!
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