Judy Center
Wendy Binkley, Judy Center Coordinator
Judy Center Office at Green Holly |
Kerrie Spurling, Judy Center Family Service CoordinatorJudy Center Office at George Washington Carver |
Freneta Carson, Program Assistant
Judy Center Office at Green Holly |
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About the Judy Center
The Judy Center provides services for children age birth through Kindergarten and their families. We work together with our community partners to ensure that children are socially, emotionally, and physically ready for school. Most services, programs and activities are free. Families must live in the Green Holly and George Washington Carver school zones to be eligible for services.
Funding
This program is funded under the Judith P. Hoyer Early Child Care and Education Center Grant as authorized by the Judith P. Hoyer Early Child Care and Enhancement Program Annotated Code of Maryland, Education Article, Section Paragraph 5-213.
Our Mission
The mission of the Judy Center is to provide comprehensive, integrated, full-day full-year services that promote school readiness for children birth through age five.
This mission requires the development of collaborative, integrated programs and approaches that support the young child's development socially and emotionally, development in language and literacy, cognitive and general knowledge, approaches toward learning, and physical well-being and motor areas, enhancing readiness for school while supporting families in their abilities to support their children's early learning.
Partnerships
- ARC of Southern Maryland
- Center for Children
- College of Southern Maryland
- Fleet and Family Services Patuxent Naval Air Station
- Health Connections
- Healthy Start
- Minds-n-Motion Child Development Center
- Priority Partners
- The Promise Resource Center
- St. Mary’s County Health Department
- St. Mary’s County Public Library
- St. Mary’s County Local Management Board
- St. Mary’s County Public Schools
- St. Mary's County Infants & Toddlers Program
- St. Mary’s Department of Recreation and Parks
- St. Mary’s County Housing Authority
- St. Mary’s County Department of Social Services
- St. Mary's County Adult Education
- The Crib
- Three Oaks Shelter
- University of Maryland Extension
Who is Judy?
Judy Hoyer was a well-known and highly regarded early childhood advocate in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She believed that the key to school readiness was support services for the entire family in one location. Judy Centers have been established to continue her life’s work. She is the late wife of our Congressman, Steny Hoyer.
Additional information can be located at the MSDE web site http://mdk12.org/instruction/ensure/readiness/whois_jph.html