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Meet Cover Directors LaVelma and Tom Long - Caring for Kids, Southfield, Michigan

September/October 1998
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They may be new to center life, but they have a long history of working with young children. LaVelma and Tom Long have spent the last two years translating their skills as home child care providers into the management expertise needed to lead a center-based early childhood program.

They took their name, Caring for Kids, with them when they purchased the Perry-Kay Nursery School and Kindergarten in Southfield, Michigan, and began to make it their own. "It isn't easy to take over someone else's business," shares LaVelma. "The first year was really hectic." But the interactions taking place in the classrooms speak to their success.

LaVelma was working as a medical assistant when she decided that it was time to grow up and decide what she really wanted to be. "We had just adopted a three year old girl and were already parents of three boys. I wanted to be home with my children, so I decided to try child care. I went to an orientation and got my license to be a family day care provider, but I kept working in the medical profession.

"People started talking about how difficult it was for them to find child care for the late ...

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