About Main Street

Main Street Child Development Center is a nonprofit early learning center that provides quality, affordable childcare for working families, primarily limited income, in Fairfax and surrounding communities.

Success Stories

Our early childhood education, child development, social services, health assessments and parenting workshops truly make a difference in the lives of our students and their families.

40th Anniversary

Help us celebrate 40 years of Main Street!

Spotlight

Meet Our Teachers

Each of our classes features highly-qualified, loving and creative teachers. Learn more about our outstanding faculty!

Featured Donors

Main Street is fortunate to receive financial contributions from many outstanding organizations. Thank you for your support!

How You Can Help

The valuable services we provide to our students and their families would not be possible without your financial contributions, donations or volunteer time. Your gift of time or money can make a real difference to us.

Latest News

Fairfax City Schools Superintendent Visits Main Street

May 12, 2013 – Superintendent of Fairfax City Schools Dr. Peter Noonan and Assistant Superintendent Mary Ann Ryan recently visited Main Street. During their visit, Noonan and Ryan took a tour of the center and discussed the importance of early childhood education with Main Street’s Interim Director Elizabeth Egan and Director of Development Rachel Werner. Main [...]

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Ted Talk: Economic case for preschool

In recent months there has been an increased focus on early childhood education, particularly since President Obama’s State of the Union Address. An increasing number of economist, policy experts, and researchers have extolled the virtues of high-quality preschool. Most recently Timothy Bartik’s Ted talk has gone viral, and he shares the economic case for preschool [...]

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A Visit to Wolf Trap

Students from Main Street’s Sunshine, Rainbow, Dolphin and Butterfly classrooms recently took a field trip to the Wolf Trap Education Center. Students, teachers and parents were treated to a special performance designed to be children’s first exposure to the performing arts. The performance was about storytelling through music and introduced the students to the musical [...]

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Spotlight: Devotion to Children makes an impact

On Wednesday, April 24th, Main Street staff and Board members were invited to attend a networking event at the Tower Club in Tyson’s Corner with other Greater DC area community and business leaders. Half of the event proceeds were provided to Devotion to Children. Devotion to Children is a Fairfax County-based organization that funds high-quality [...]

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Main Street Welcomes Students and Families at Family Night

April 3, 2013 – Main Street hosted Family Night for our students and their families. Families were able to play games and see a magic show. Family Night also included our Book Fair, where families could to purchase books for their children. Family Night was a great way to celebrate Main Street’s 40th Anniversary with our [...]

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