Less than three years ago, Life Services Systems moved from the basement of the Holland Chamber of Commerce to its own 4,000-square-foot building on Waverly Road to accommodate the growth of its programs.

The agency has outgrown its location already and is planning another move for its Parent Information and Resource Center. Life Services Systems recently purchased the 26,000-square-foot building on the corner of Adams Street and Country Club Drive that used to house West Michigan Office Interiors.

"We had no idea we would be moving again," said Deanna DePree, executive director of Life Services Systems. "We've had so many parents come. It's just been phenomenal -- the growth of parents."

The move is planned for later this spring. However, Life Services Systems is offering an opportunity from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday for the public to provide input for the design of its new parent center at 11172 Adams St.

"It will be a fun time for families, but also an opportunity for them to give us their ideas," DePree said. "We want to get people's ideas of what they want to see in a parent center. We're hoping this will be a place for all parents with a special emphasis on parents with children from birth through elementary school ages. "

The center places a big emphasis on the importance of literacy and teachers parents how to help stimulate their child's physical, social, intellectual and emotional development.

Crossover Technologies of Holland will provide computers for Saturday's event, which includes a continental breakfast. Using computers, people will be able to select ideas they would like to see for the center, said Mark Albers with Crossover Technologies. Some suggestions could be having a theater, computer classroom, library, a storytime room and parents lounge in the building and a vegetable garden and nature trials on the grounds. Free family digital pictures will be provided compliments of Crossover Technologies.

"This is an opportunity to implement President George Bush's plan that no child be left behind," Albers said.

Life Services Systems started in 1983 as a pilot project in the Ottawa County Human Services building. In 1989 it became a non-profit agency and in 1995 moved to the chamber building. In May 1999 it moved into the former Carlson Wagonlit Travel agency building at 160 S. Waverly.

It offers several programs such as Community in Schools, which serves 7,700 students at 19 sites in Ottawa County; Parents as Teachers, which serves over 200 families a year in Ottawa County; Transition Planning for Students in Special Education, which assists about 200 students annually and the LSS Transportation Service, which coordinates over 100,000 rides to work annually for people with disabilities or those getting off welfare.