History of the Learning Center

During the 1970's and 1980's Tenth Street United Methodist Church lead in the organization of the Home Park Community Improvement Association (HPCIA), the Home Park Child Care Center (HPCCC)[later known as the Home Park Learning Center], and the Northside Shepherd's Center (NSC). The HPCIA received its articles of incorporation in 1972. At that time, the address registered for the corporation was 1061 Atlantic Drive, the home of A.N. ("Jug") Harris. Jug served as its director and the other eight board positions were filled by the Reverends Kenneth Kulp and Frank Windom (pastor and associate pastor at Tenth Street United Methodist Church), W.B. Hayward, Mary Margaret Ware, William P. Groover, William Ward, Mrs. W.C. Bowen, and James Shivers. The HPCIA was established for the purpose of operating the HPCCC as a non-profit child care facility serving the Home Park community and its neighbors. HPCCC had already been operating for three years in the basement of and as a mission project of Tenth Street Methodist before the formation of HPCIA.

In 1999, Georgia Tech and HPCIA together formed a nonprofit corporation called Home Park Learning Center, Inc. to enter into a 30-year lease with the city and oversee management of the center. This state-of-the-art child care center opened in January 2003.