Visit Our Child Development Centers

Visit our Centers

Research, Course Related Work & Observations

NOTE: ALL visitors to the centers, including researchers, professors, students and volunteers, must complete a fingerprint background check from Georgia’s Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) PRIOR to visiting the centers. Please see the attached instructions to complete a Bright from the Start/DECAL fingerprint background check. Under “facility”, enter either Lanette L. Suttles Child Development Center or Capitol Hill Child Enrichment Center to pull the desired location. “Suttles” or “Capitol Hill” should be enough for the facility to populate. Please note that you do not have to complete all fields. The facility name field is enough. The background check is free. A clearance letter is required for all subjects visiting the centers and interacting with the children. If you have completed a DECAL background check in the past year, you will have to connect with the center director to have it ported to the facility. It will not be valid unless ported. This is a licensing requirement.

Contact Yoly Santini-Diaz, [email protected], with questions or concerns.

The Child Development Program serves as a lab site. Our mission is twofold:

Support research related to young children
Prepare Georgia State students to work with young children in a professional setting

Our goals center on current learning and child development theories. Young children learn through play and grow and develop in supportive environments. Such environments encourage them to try new things and express their natural curiosity.

Our program offers educators an opportunity to observe master teachers. Our master teachers use development appropriate lessons and materials for the children.

We also provide observational opportunities for students from other departments across campus. Students learn appropriate skills and practice techniques by observation. Structured interaction, observation in the classrooms or observation rooms are available.

Students also learn effective communication skills to help them develop professional behavior. Graduate and undergraduate students conduct various projects and observations in our classrooms.

Our program also serves as an interdisciplinary research program. Teams of faculty and students contribute different perspectives. The University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) must approve all research conducted. Their primary responsibility is to protect human subjects. The IRB provides rigorous reviews of research and the data is completely confidential.

To complete course-work, observations or research at our centers follow these instructions:

Complete the form related to your request and email Ada P. Rookard at [email protected]
You can also fax to 404-413-8463 or
Deliver to 30 Courtland St., Room G-17, Dahlberg Hall

Necessary Documents

Volunteers

Interested in volunteering?

Complete the Volunteer Request form, background check and submit to Yolanda Santini-Diaz at [email protected], hand-deliver it to 30 Courtland St., Room G-17 Dhalberg Hall or fax to 404-413-8463.

Tours

Interested in a tour of the center?

For our Capitol Hill location contact Mrs. Nekeshia Shoemake at 404-413-8454 or [email protected].

For our Suttles location contact Yolanda Santini-Diaz at [email protected].

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