Tamika Johnson: entrepreneur, mother, business owner, and early childhood education advocate.
For the past 12 years, Johnson’s been the Director and CEO of Kidz World Childcare in Henderson, Kentucky. A Henderson native, “Ms. Johnson” as she is affectionately called by all who know her, attended Henderson Community College and earned a degree in both Early Childhood Education and Sociology at the University of Southern Indiana.
Johnson began her career working with children through a position in social services. Although she helped many Henderson families and children through that job, she dreamed of being more of a preemptive force for child advocacy.
“Early on, I always seemed to work with children,” Johnson recalls. “I wanted to do something with kids on a happier level, which lead to me to being a Childcare Director at First Baptist Church in Henderson. I loved it. I loved working with the kids, and the leadership responsibilities that it gave me.”
Finally, the passion that Johnson had for the children that she taught and cared for morphed into the dream of owning her own child care facility. She decided to obtain her Master’s Degree in Business Management from Oakland City University. Through her educational journey in Early Childhood Education and Business Managment, Johnson says she developed the skills needed to start her own business, Kidz World. Johnson says she and her staff apply the holistic approach to child care, to ensure that not only the physical needs of a child are met, but that they develop the child physically, mentally, and emotionally. “The old-school childcare facility is styled as a babysitting service… the thought was simply bringing my child to be taken care of,” Johnson says. “The new concept that our staff has embraced at Kidz World is that we are an educational institution for children six weeks to 12 years of age. We teach age-appropriate curriculum throughout the whole center, so we aren’t just watching children; we are educating children from the beginning to the end.”
The people at Kidz World have integrated this culture of early learning and development wholeheartedly. Johnson says having fun and learning go hand-in-hand for Johnson and her staff. “My staff has compassion, commitment, and a genuine desire to see children succeed,” she says. Tamika Johnson has devoted her time, energy, and focus nurturing and advancing children, and that is why developing Henderson’s children is her nature.
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