Covina Development Center

🎄❤ A Huge Thank You to Covina Police Department! Covina Police Department ✨We want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to the entire Covina PD for your continued partnership with Covina Development Center.

Your annual toy donations make a *tremendous* impact. Because of your generosity, we’re able to support 60 children all with their own unique needs, stories, and strengths. Your kindness helps ensure every child we serve experiences joy, dignity, and inclusion during the holiday season. 🎁❤️

For 27 years, partners like Covina PD have helped us continue the work of inclusion we’ve proudly done since 1997, and we are truly grateful for your commitment to our community.

🌟When we invest in children of ALL abilities, we strengthen our entire community and make it more inclusive. 🌟

Thank you so much for your support and participation in our 28th Annual Thanksgiving Feast. Your generous donations and the time many of you volunteered helped make this year’s celebration truly special. We are grateful for the partnership we share with each of you.

Sharing a meal is a powerful way to bring people together, and it was wonderful to gather as a CDC family laughing, connecting, and creating memories just like we would around our own family tables.

We were also honored to welcome a very special guest, Mrs. Paula Jeppson, the very first director of the Covina Development Center. Paula dedicated her career to supporting children with specific needs, and her passion laid the foundation for our center when she established it back in 1997. Having her join us was a beautiful reminder of how far we’ve come and how meaningful our work continues to be.

Thank you again for making this tradition so meaningful for our students, staff, and community. We are truly grateful for each of you.

We’re excited to share a little glimpse into our 2025 CDC Training Retreat! Our team had the wonderful opportunity to be trained by Emmanuel Martinez, Program Consultant from Communal Playcentre, who guided us through CLASS assessment (Classroom Assessment Scoring System) strategies as well as the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our classrooms.

To bring fresh ideas and inspiration back to our students, we also traveled to Catalina Island for team building and to spark creativity for our lesson planning. This retreat gave us new tools, strengthened our collaboration as a team, and reminded us of the importance of celebrating every child’s unique strengths.

We are so excited to put what we’ve learned into practice and can’t wait for your children to benefit from the inspiration, skills, and renewed energy our staff has gained.

Thank you for trusting us with your little ones each day. Together we continue to grow stronger as a community.