Sample Fact Sheet
MEDIA CONTACT: Nancy Pickle, ABC Center Manager
214-555-2984 (day)
214-123-9876 (evening)
nancypickle@abcc.org
ABC CENTER FACT SHEET
Description: The ABC Center is a model preschool program for children from
economically disadvantaged families. The program offers free comprehensive
services that, in general, match developmental opportunities that the children’s
counterparts in more affluent families enjoy.
Objective: To provide students with an educational foundation that will help
them to complete high school and secure a job or obtain further education.
History: The ABC program was founded in 1990 by Child Care Texas, a nonprofit
child care welfare company based in Austin, Texas. Two other ABC Center programs
were started in 1985 in Austin, Texas and all are operational today. The Dallas
ABC program is the first Center to open outside the state capital.
Students: The ABC Center serves all 4-year-old children who live in the XYZ
Elementary School attendance zone. Approximately 5,000 students have graduated
from the ABC Center and 100 are currently enrolled in the program.
Demographics: Approximately 92 percent of the ABC households earn less than
$8,000 a year, 93 percent of the households are headed by a single parent,
76 percent of the families have no employed adult in the household, 41 percent
of the parents graduated from high school.
Education: The preschool uses a developmental and child-initiated teaching
methodology in which the teachers implement a multisensory language program
to strengthen the cognitive and communications development of the children.
Honors: In 1998, The ABC Center was honored as one of the “10 Best Child
Care Centers in the US” by USA Child Corp. and the Center received the
2001 “Best of Texas Center” award presented by the Parents Fund
for Children.
Director: Cristina Fouras, M.S., has been the director of the program since
its inception.
Location: The ABC Center is located at 2222 Rob Road in Dallas.
Web site: www.abccenterdallas.org
Phone: The ABC Center phone number is 214/444-3214.
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