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Meet the Team

The Nollie Jenkins Family 
Center Story

1994

Incorporated in 1994, Nollie Jenkins Family Center’s (NJFC) initial design intentionally sought to create an inclusive setting that would provide safe, affordable and quality childcare for children from birth up to five, and afterschool and summer programming for middle and high school students. The Center functioned solely as a childcare facility in the city of Lexington, MS for three years. 

1997

In the fall of 1997, NJFC relocated to Treadwell Grove, a rural community outside the city of Lexington. The Center’s mission shifted to supplying a broader range of services for youth. The following spring the Center, recognizing the power of individual transformation and collective movement-building, expanded its commitment to community organizing and child advocacy.

our approach

We believe that 

  1. Every child can learn.

  2. It takes a village an entire village to raise a child

  3. To create a first-rate education for children it is necessary to change the culture of public education!

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