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Meet Cover Director Linda Campos Ruiz

January/February 2000
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"There's always something to do and always someone who will help." Director Linda Campos Ruiz crystalizes the spirit that created El Buen Pastor Early Childhood Development Center and the impetus behind its next evolution.

Currently, El Buen Pastor is a small program (six staff serving 50 children and their families in Austin, Texas) - a small program with big plans to build a new facility for 117 children (ages six months to school age) with nine additional staff and a $1 million grant to make it happen. El Buen Pastor ECDC, a self-supporting, non-profit organization of the Hispanic Church, is a Four Star Vendor of the Texas Migrant Council-CCMS program, accredited by NAEYC.

"With such a small program, it is difficult to invite quality staff to join us. With a larger facility, it is our plan to take someone in who wants to work with children, mentor them, model for them, and then find financing to train them. We've always done this with our staff. We want to create an environment where people come to work with kids because they want to be here, not because they can't find anything else to do.

"There was a Title XX program at this location which ...

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