Owner/Director & CEO

Kishia Saffold acquired Kiddie Care Learning Center in 2004, but she has a long history in childcare because her mother was an in-home childcare provider who opened a childcare facility in 1996. At that time Kishia worked as a teacher in the center while also attending college. A few years later, she became a mother and worked as a news producer in Alabama and North Carolina. As a single mother, Kishia worked diverse shifts and found that childcare centers who had extended hours were usually in bad neighborhoods. She felt as if she had to sacrifice quality care. In 2000, Kishia worked at her mother's daycare as Assistant Director. In 2002, they opened a new childcare center in Dothan that was inspired from Kishia’s good and bad experiences in childcare, both as a teacher and as a parent. Today, Kiddie Care Learning Center is the largest privately-owned childcare learning center in the Wiregrass area, and was voted Best Daycare/Preschool of the Wiregrass the last three years. Mrs. Saffold has earned a Masters of Business Administration from Troy University and a Bachelors of Arts in Communication from Alabama State University. She is a wife to Jeffery and a mother to daughter Kiera, a 2020 graduate of Dartmouth College.