Joyce Lang
Joyce has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Muhlenberg College and Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Penn State University. She's had 31 years experience in Head Start, school-age child care, Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R), and child care training, consultation and technical assistance programs. Joyce is an Adjunct Faculty Member and Program Manager for the Center for Early Childhood and School-Age Leadership at Northampton Community College. The Center's programs include STARS TA (Technical Assistance), PASELA (Promoting and Supporting Early Literacy through the Arts), Art As A Way of Learning, Building Inclusive Child Care, and an Inclusive Child Care Demonstration Site. For more than 20 years Joyce served as the Director of the Child Care Division for Community Services for Children, Inc. in Allentown, PA, directing CCR&R, child care subsidy, professional development, and Child Care Resource Developers programs and a regional School-Age Child Care project.
Over the years Joyce has been a trainer on the national, state and local levels. As a member of the Systems Workgroup, she helped to create Keystone STARS, Pennsylvania’s voluntary child care quality improvement program. She was instrumental in implementing the first parent choice child care subsidy program (in Lehigh County) and the first school-age child care credit courses (offered by Northampton Community College) in Pennsylvania. Joyce was a founding board member of the National School-Age Care Alliance (NSACA, now the National Afterschool Association, NAA), is Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania School-Age Child Care Alliance (PENN SACCA), and is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), National Afterschool Association (NAA), and Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool/Youth Development Network (PSAYDN).
In addition to her professional experience, she has one daughter and has been a consumer of all types of child care (family child care, center-based pre-school care, school-based school-age child care and neighbor/relative care). Joyce envisions a future where the next generation of early childhood and school-age leaders has the opportunity to discover the leadership potential within themselves with access to opportunities to develop and refine their leadership skills, receives support from colleagues, parents, community and the general public, and "gives back" by taking a leadership role in the development of emerging leaders in our profession.
