Greater Lawrence Community Action Council, Inc

Child Care Center

Learn & Grow

The Child Care Center is a positive, nurturing environment for children – toddlers to school-age students –  to reach their full potential.

Our staff of professional educators creates lessons, activities and experiences to support our students’ academic and developmental growth in these areas:

  • Social-emotional
  • Physical
  • Language
  • Cognitive
  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Science & Technology
  • Social Studies
  • Arts

The center’s experienced and highly qualified staff instills a life-long love of learning with well-planned daily activities that follow age-appropriate curriculums.  Students benefit from:

  • Educational field trips
  • Educational support
  • Speech-, occupational- and physical-therapy services when needed
  • Academic assessments
  • Bilingual services.

Healthy Food & Exercise

Students are served two nutritious meals and one snack every day; prepared fresh in our kitchen.

Three playgrounds let toddlers, preschoolers and school-age students play with children in their age group and develop gross motor skills.

National & State Recognition

Providing quality care since 1971, the Child Care Center is:

  • Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
  • Fully licensed and funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care.
  • Recipient of the Universal Pre-Kindergarten Quality Grant from the Department of Early Education & Care.

Call to Enroll

The Child Care Center accepts children age 15 months to 11 years old on a space-available basis.

The center offers very competitive rates, and state-funded financial aid is available for qualifying families.

Transportation is provided for children living in Lawrence.  Transportation for students in the School-Age Program is available from Lawrence Public Schools to the center.

School-age students attend daily after school and full-time during all school vacation weeks and summer vacation.

Contact Us

Child Care Center

585 Andover St.
Lawrence, MA 01843
Phone: (978) 681-4910, Fax: (978) 681-4913
Hours: 7 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday - Friday