Staff

Janet Filante Janet Filante
Executive Director
Prior to joining CCDI, Filante held organizing positions for the Clean Air Council and the Philadelphia Unemployment Project. She was head teacher in the two-year old room for five years and teaches music at the Childspace Day Care Center.
Email: jfilante@childspacecdi.org
Teresa Mansell Teresa Mansell
Program Director
Mansell is a former center director, early education teacher and organizer for District 1199C, National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. She is a founding mother of Childspace Management Group (CMG.)
Email: tmansell@childspacecdi.org
Doris Young Doris Young
Program Assistant
Young has been working at Childspace CDI since October 2006 and for Childspace Too child care center in the various classrooms since 2002. She attended Shippensburg University and received a bachelors degree in social work.
Email: dyoung@childspacecdi.org
Susan Kavchok Susan Kavchok
Financial Director and Trainer
Kavchok has developed curriculum and trained over 900 members of the child care industry in all aspects of business development. She provides technical assistance to early education programs under the Keystone Stars Quality Initiative.
Email: skavchok@aol.com
Mindy Barbakoff Mindy Barbakoff
Director Mentor
Barbakoff has been a director of a NAECY accredited center for eighteen years. She is an adjunct Early Childhood professor at Harcum Junior College and provides technical assistance to early education programs under the Keystone Stars Quality Initiative.
Email: childspacegtown@aol.com


To contact us:
5517 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Phone: 215-842-3050
Fax: 215-842-3075