WHAT:
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., Deputy Chief Bryan Warner and other Cherokee leaders will gather with Catoosa community members to celebrate the grand opening of the Catoosa Child Development Center.
WHEN:
Thursday, Oct. 15 at 11 a.m.
WHERE:
Catoosa Child Development Center
19244 Country Club Dr.
Catoosa, Oklahoma
WHO:
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.
Deputy Principal Chief Bryan Warner
Cherokee Nation Cabinet
Council of the Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation Businesses
Cherokee Nation Human Services
Catoosa community members
CATOOSA, Okla. — Cherokee Nation leaders will gather with Catoosa community members for the grand opening of the Catoosa Child Development Center.
This project is a response to a community need for affordable childcare, as well as Cherokee Nation employee need near one of the tribe’s largest employment centers.
The Catoosa Child Development Center is 33,600 square feet, with 10 classrooms, two motor skills rooms that double as storm shelters, a full commercial kitchen and administrative office space.
The tribe currently operates Child Development Center’s in Tahlequah, Stilwell, Sallisaw and Pryor as well.
Under the Hoskin/Warner administration, the tribe has made massive expansions to its childcare and early childhood education programs since 2019. Those initiatives include new Child Development Centers in Pryor, Sallisaw and Catoosa and the replacement of all the tribe’s Head Start facilities across seven communities.
Chief Hoskin and Deputy Chief Warner recently proposed the “Cherokee Nation 21st Century Childcare Initiative” which calls for $50 million in childcare center construction and millions of dollars annually in new and expanded support programs. A resolution supporting the initiative will be heard by the Council of the Cherokee Nation this month.