LISC Awards Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center with Predevelopment Funds for Child Care Expansion

LISC recently awarded $30,000 in predevelopment funds to Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center to expand their child care offerings to a nearby building. The funds will be used for project management, compliance consulting, and enhanced parent engagement planning. This project addresses the growing demand for licensed child care in Crooked Creek including those families with language barriers.

Building a resilient child care system requires exploration of new models and ways of developing space to meet a wide array of family and community needs. LISC’s Building Innovation for Equitable Child Care program funds, coordinates, and supports a cohort of “co-location models” that seek to push the boundaries of ways that child care space has historically been thought of and developed. These projects seek to pair childcare provision with affordable housing, community space, health services, and other critical community needs.

Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center currently offers services like workforce development, financial literacy, family and community engagement, empowerment for men and immigrants, rental and utility assistance, employment support, FSSA application assistance, youth services, health initiatives, a food pantry, and a mental health program. Expanding child care services will enable families to access these wraparound services, including case management, academic certifications for parents, economic mobility support, monthly food boxes, holiday store, on-site mental health therapy, youth services, and health awareness.

This is the second infusion of funds to Indianapolis through the LISC Child Care & Early Learning initiative’s Building Innovation for Equitable Child Care program. In 2021, the Far Eastside’s Mt. Paran Church, and its HOPE CDC entity, were selected to receive $89,000 in predevelopment grants for space use analysis, architecture, market study, and other planning needs to support the development of a new early childhood education facility.

Dr. David Hampton (Executive Director, LISC Indianapolis), Patrice Duckett-Brown (Executive Director, Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center), and Brandon Taylor (Deputy Director, LISC Indianapolis).

Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center

Fay Biccard Glick Neighborhood Center expansion site in former CVS building