West Side Home Daycare Training Institute
Spring 1997
A survey of Near West Side public housing residents and employers, conducted
by the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois
at Chicago (UIC) and Executive Service Corps, illustrated, as expected,
the need for increased affordable infant and toddler child care in the
community. The Westside Consortium, with the collaboration of UIC and
the City of Chicago Department of Human Services, decided to establish
a home daycare training institute at Malcolm X College to meet this need.
The goal of the Institute is to increase the child care capacity of the
Near West Side community through Head Start/ Child Care homes. The Institute
will train home daycare workers and create a network of licensed family
daycare homes to provide quality care for infants and toddlers of low
income residents.
The West Side Consortium asked the City Design Center to design and
coordinate construction of the Training Institute’s facility, and
develop informational materials for the program. Reverend Robert Strom,
a member of the Consortium, explained the importance of the program: “The
demand and enthusiasm for this program definitely exists. The collaboration
with the UIC City Design Center has been helpful in planning, establishing,
and implementing this creative program. We hope this one-of-a-kind program
will be a model for the rest of the City to replicate.”
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Map of Chicago with project location
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City Design Center Affiliated Faculty
Tom Forman, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Architecture, and
Associate Director, City Design Center
Collaborating Organizations
City of Chicago
Malcolm X College
UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
West Side Consortium
Funding
City of Chicago
Methodist Women
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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