The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center · Infant Center, Santa Monica
The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center is a licensed child care center in Santa Monica, CA, licensed for up to 12 children and serving infants and toddlers. It has held its California license since 2000. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it once. No visit in that period produced a citation, which puts it among the 34% of ranked California centers with no citations. It has too few inspections so far for a statewide comparison.
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Common questions
Does The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center take infants?
Yes. It is licensed by California as an infant center.
Has The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021.
When was The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center last inspected?
Dec 7, 2023. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Los Angeles County, which includes Santa Monica, was $1,555 a month for infants (about $1,960 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs The Growing Place - Marine Park Children's Center?
The licensee is Growing Place-a-non-profit Child Development, The, and the administrator listed with the state is Halie Lieberman.
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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.
To read the full state reports, search facility number 197407721 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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