ABOUT US
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MISSION
Since 1898, Gads Hill Center creates opportunities for children and their families to build a better life through education, access to resources and community engagement.
VISION
All individuals, regardless of where they start, will achieve their full potential.
OVERVIEW
Gads Hill Center values children and their families – their ability to learn, to lead and to positively shape their futures. Since 1898, Gads Hill Center supports working families through comprehensive programs and services that connect children and families to resources that meet their educational, employment, and health-related goals.
Gads Hill Center works with more than 4,000 children across Chicago by providing the following high-quality accredited programs and services:
OUR VALUES
OUR ACCREDITATIONS AND AWARDS
Since 1898, Gads Hill Center creates opportunities for children and their families to build a better life through education, access to resources and community engagement.
VISION
All individuals, regardless of where they start, will achieve their full potential.
OVERVIEW
Gads Hill Center values children and their families – their ability to learn, to lead and to positively shape their futures. Since 1898, Gads Hill Center supports working families through comprehensive programs and services that connect children and families to resources that meet their educational, employment, and health-related goals.
Gads Hill Center works with more than 4,000 children across Chicago by providing the following high-quality accredited programs and services:
- EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Empowers parents to be their children's first teachers with early childhood development resources including comprehensive educational and developmental services.
- YOUTH SERVICES: Provides out-of-school programs to children from kindergarten through sixth grade, mentoring to at-risk youth from sixth through eighth grade, and STEM-focused academic enrichment and college preparatory programs to high school students.
- COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: Connects children and families to resources that meet their educational, job and health-related goals.
- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: Enhances academic success, social-emotional development and wellbeing through individualized support, access to mental health resources and community engagement.
OUR VALUES
- We value children and their families; their ability to learn, to lead, to grow and to positively change their futures.
- We value the transformational power of education, the strength of families and the engagement of communities.
- We value our staff for their professionalism and dedication to our children and their families.
- We believe that our supporters and funders are partners in creating well-managed and fiscally sound programs and services.
OUR ACCREDITATIONS AND AWARDS
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- ExceleRate Illinois' Gold Circle of Quality (North Lawndale site): State of Illinois' highest level of quality. Demonstrates Gads Hill Center's commitment to quality early childhood education, which has been proven to better prepare children for school and life.
- Chicago Benchmarking Collaborative: Alliance of seven education and human services agencies dedicated to increasing the quality of services offered to working families.
- United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, Education Impact Award, 2014
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Board President
Juan Orta Vice President Mark Hersh Reed Smith Treasurer James A. Brett Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America Secretary Debra Clayton Northern Trust Member-At-Large Beverly Wyckoff Dover Corporation Parent Policy Council Chair, Head Start Dana Williams |
Donnica Austin-Cathey
Sinai Health System Daniel Baker Chapman and Cutler LLP Ellen Brett Cook County State's Attorney James P. Brett Jorge V. Cazares Pugh Jones & Johnson, P.C. David S. Crossett Chapman and Cutler Dorinda Flores Fifth Third Bank |
Maricela García
Gads Hill Center Delia Gutierrez McLaughlin Coda Consulting Group Saul Lopez People's Gas Jorge Leon Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP Virginia Martínez, J.D. Civic Leader David Shier Walsh Construction |
SENIOR MANAGEMENT
Maricela García - Chief Executive Officer
Ernesto De La Torre - Chief Financial Officer
Guadalupe Preston - Chief Operations Officer
Rosa Julia Garcia Rivera - Director of Programs
Maricela García - Chief Executive Officer
Ernesto De La Torre - Chief Financial Officer
Guadalupe Preston - Chief Operations Officer
Rosa Julia Garcia Rivera - Director of Programs
LOCATIONS
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Pilsen
1919 W. Cullerton, St. Chicago, IL 60608 P 312.226.0963 F 312.226.2248 North Lawndale
2653 W. Ogden Ave. Chicago, IL 60608 P 773.521.1196 F 773.521.4793 |
Brighton Park
4234-6 S. Archer Ave. Chicago, IL 60632 P 773.269.6595 F 773.269.6556 Chicago Lawn
3137 W. 71st St. Chicago, IL 60629 P 773.696.4742 F 773.498.3073 |
