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Jill Bradley
National Training Associate

 

Jill Bradley is the Chief of Programs Officer at the Carole Robertson Center for Learning in Chicago. She is responsible for the management of services for infants, children and youth at three centers and the new family child care home network. The agency serves a total of 800 children in the Lawndale and Little Village communities in Chicago. The Carole Robertson Center has provided services for children during out-of-school time for nearly thirty years.

Prior to this, Jill was the Director of Child Care Services for the Chicago Housing Authority, which served 650 children, who were largely residents of public housing in the city of Chicago. She was field coordinator for the Erikson Institute Public School Partnership Project. She was Director of the Olive-Harvey Child Development Center for the City Colleges of Chicago, where she opened both the preschool and school age programs at the college.

She is the former Chair of the Steering Committee of the Chicago M.O.S.T. (Making the Most of Out-of-School Time) Initiative in order to improve the quality and quantity of school age care for children. Jill has completed coursework towards her doctorate in Early Childhood Education at the Erikson Institute Graduate School.

Jill has two daughters, Ginneh and Allena.

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