The Wilder Child Development Center (CDC) is a full-day child care and early childhood education program for children ages 16 months up to kindergarten who live in the greater Saint Paul, Minnesota, area. It is designed to promote the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of the children, including age-appropriate proficiency in personal and social skills, language and literacy, and mathematical thinking.

The Child Development Center provides qualified and caring staff, nutritionally sound meals, age-appropriate programming, and family outreach activities and support to promote positive family functioning. The curriculum emphasizes multi-cultural and multi-sensory activities that promote younger children’s readiness for school and supplement older children’s learning in school.