Lumen Early Learning Center (LELC) is a not-for-profit childcare center that serves children birth through twelve years old. Our mission is threefold: (1) to provide a safe and healthy early education program primarily for children whose parents attend Lumen High School, (2) to educate and advocate at the local and state level about the benefits of high quality early education programs and (3) to address the important issues of poverty, trauma and equity particularly within vulnerable populations, such as teenaged parents.