Head Start children receive specialized quality education and comprehensive social services that provide opportunities for our children to learn and succeed when they enter kindergarten.

Education and disability:

• Individualized teaching
• Low child/staff ratios
• Structured routines and schedules
• School readiness skills
• Culturally diverse
• Services for children with disabilities
• Screenings and ongoing assessments
• Individualized activities
• Inclusive classrooms
• Parent advocacy and training

Health:

• Medical and dental case management
• Staff certified in first aid & CPR
• Clean and safe environments
• On-site dental exams and fluoride varnish
• Hearing and vision screenings
• Indoor/outdoor physical development

Nutrition:

• Healthy breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Menus developed by registered dietitians

Family support:

• Parent engagement activities and leadership opportunities
• Supporting families to meet their needs and achieve goals
• Community resources and services
• School district transportation may be available

The age requirement for our Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (EHS-CCP) Program is 6 weeks – 35 months of age.

Our Early Head Start-Childcare Partnership (EHS-CCP) Program recruits families receiving Child Care Services (CCS). Often, CCS requires a co-payment, and families are responsible for paying their own co-payment directly to each childcare center.

Head Start children receive specialized quality education and comprehensive social services that provide opportunities for our children to learn and succeed when they enter kindergarten.

Education and disability:

• Individualized teaching
• Low child/staff ratios
• Structured routines and schedules
• School readiness skills
• Culturally diverse
• Services for children with disabilities
• Screenings and ongoing assessments
• Individualized activities
• Inclusive classrooms
• Parent advocacy and training

Health:

• Medical and dental case management
• Staff certified in first aid and CPR
• Clean and safe environments
• On-site dental exams and fluoride varnish
• Hearing and vision screenings
• Indoor/outdoor physical development

Nutrition:

• Healthy breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Menus developed by registered dietitians

Family support:

• Parent engagement activities and leadership opportunities
• Supporting families to meet their needs and achieve goals
• Community resources and services
• School district transportation may be available

Did you know books with African American characters were premium products. How? The children books in the Museum Shop in SAAACAM @ La Villita sold out in less than 30 days.

The free little lending library provides an opportunity to provide books seven days a week. The library will delight children and adults alike.

Click here if you would like to make a donation to the Little Lending Library.

A Place for Children to…

• Learn
• Work
• Play
• Develop as a whole child
• Become involved in the lives of young children
• Form friendships
• Be herself/himself

The Children’s Center at First Presbyterian Church was opened on September 3, 1980, with five classrooms. Since then, the Children’s Center has adopted the mission to show the children, on a daily basis, aspects of Christian living and God’s love for each child through the teaching and example of the teachers, staff and members of the church staff.  It is because of the excellent staff and mission that the center has grown and become one of the best in San Antonio.

Our Program:

• Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers (6 weeks—Age 5)
• Year-round care
• Qualified, nurturing, experienced staff
• Developmentally appropriate curriculum
• Lunch and snacks
• Weekly music enrichment class
• Weekly chapel service
• Field Trips
• Special Summer Activities

Click here for tuition information and registration.

The Advanced Learning Academy (ALA) at Fox Tech is a 4th - 12th Grade campus in the San Antonio Independent School District.

By using the broader community as its classroom, ALA leads in transforming the education model. Teachers collaborate to create a personalized learning experience for all students and foster a passion for exploration, deep thinking, problem-solving, and creative design. Authentic learning experiences provide all students with cutting-edge learning skills that prepare them for all futures they envision for themselves.

ALA is built around four commitments in service of its bold vision for a transformative educational model:

• deep learning
• individuality
• flexible design
• connection

ALA Fox Tech campus is open to students in 4th - 12th Grade. If there are fewer applications than seats available, no lottery is conducted and all students are accepted.  If there are more applications than available seats, a lottery is conducted, offers are made for the number of seats available, and the remaining students are waitlisted.  

ALA employs design thinking as a major pillar of its educational philosophy, which uses empathy to understand the needs of real people and understands that problems seldom have one perfect solution.

ALA offers college prep opportunities like AP and dual-credit courses, and extracurricular programs like newspaper, gardening, and art.

To learn more, sign up here for one of our information sessions; Tour the school and meet the staff and current students. 

ALA at Fox Tech partners with San Antonio ISD. To apply, please click here for their online enrollment system.

Advanced Learning Academy is a Tuition Free, Public School that accepts students from across the Greater San Antonio Region.

ReadyKidSA is your one-stop resource for raising Happy Healthy Ready Kids.

ReadyKidSA is a coalition of organizations across Bexar County that builds on successful child and family programs in San Antonio. Our partners offer a wide range of support services designed to help individuals and families navigate the different challenges that arise with each phase of life.

Find the right resources to fit your needs:

• Call 2-1-1: Connecting People & Services
• Get Support by the Age of Your Child
• Get Support by Services Offered
• Get In Touch with Us

At the Healy-Murphy Child Development Center, we believe in caring for the whole child. Our dynamic curriculum helps your child build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills necessary to grow up happy, healthy and ready for school.
Our commitment to your child includes:

• Learning through play and discovery
• Understanding your child’s individual needs
• Free weekly well-checks and nutrition consultations with pediatric nurse practitioners from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Community Nursing
• Free breakfast, lunch and snacks

Daycare is available for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years (including pre-K 3-5).

Advanced Learning Academy (ALA) lifts the ceiling on learning for all members of the educational community. ALA provides 21st-century opportunities within a caring and open community and fosters a depth of thinking, problem-solving, creative design, and real-world applications. Students develop deep content knowledge and cutting-edge learning skills to prepare them for any and all futures they can envision.

The curriculum at ALA relies heavily on Project-Based Learning, which is an approach to education that emphasizes learning through creating. Projects aren’t just replacements for tests, they’re real-world creations that start their development at the very beginning of a new unit of content.  

ALA is built around four commitments in service of its bold vision for a transformative educational model:

• deep learning
• individuality
• flexible design
• connection

ALA is open to students in Pre-K to 3rd Grade. If there are fewer applications than seats available, no lottery is conducted and all students are accepted.  If there are more applications than available seats, a lottery is conducted, offers are made for the number of seats available, and the remaining students are waitlisted.  

ALA at Euclid (PK-3) Information Sessions: 
Students and parents are invited to attend an information session after school on select Thursdays from 4:00-5:00 PM. Once you submit this form, your registration for your selected date and time is confirmed. 

As a professional development school for Trinity University, the education faculty at the college help facilitate the curriculum design.

ALA uses the RULER approach to teaching social and emotional learning that was created by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

ALA at Euclid partners with San Antonio ISD. To apply, please click here for their online enrollment system.

Advanced Learning Academy is a tuition-free, public school that accepts students from across the Greater San Antonio Region.

For young children growing up is hard enough, especially where there is a sibling whose special needs require a great deal of time and attention. Sometimes siblings feel alone and left out, as we have seen happen over the years at Any Baby Can. Sibling Support is facilitated by a licensed professional counselor.

The child must reside in either Bexar, Atascosa, Bandera, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Medina, Real, Uvalde or Wilson County.

Free.

Early Head Start Child Care Partnership is a new opportunity to support the partnering of Early Head Start Programs with Child Care Providers to expand the number of quality slots for infants and toddlers in San Antonio. Through partnership, Early Head Start grantees partner with center-based and family child care providers who agree to meet Early Head Start Program Performance Standards and Regulations and provide high-quality comprehensive, full-day, full-year services to infants and toddlers from low-income families.

The program provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services that enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children. In addition, services provide young children ages birth to 36 months, with an array of comprehensive services including health, nutritional, behavioral, and family services.

Early Head Start and Head Start promote school readiness by encouraging parent involvement and through the cognitive, social, emotional, language, and physical development of children.

Early Head Start Requirements
Age: 6 weeks to 3 years
Our Early Head Start Centers have an income-based requirement. Though, we encourage everyone to apply.

Early Head Start Child Care Partnership is a new opportunity to support the partnering of Early Head Start Programs with Child Care Providers to expand the number of quality slots for infants and toddlers in San Antonio. Through partnership, Early Head Start grantees partner with center-based and family child care providers who agree to meet Early Head Start Program Performance Standards and Regulations and provide high-quality comprehensive, full-day, full-year services to infants and toddlers from low-income families.

The program provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services that enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children. In addition, services provide young children ages birth to 36 months, with an array of comprehensive services including health, nutritional, behavioral, and family services.

Third-grade reading levels lay a foundation for a successful educational journey. From third grade onwards, sutdents are reading to learn, and literary struggles only compound. Strong reading ability is pivotal to learning and future career goals.

Family Service parent engagement provides free reading tutoring for first, second, and third graders to help them feel confident, pass their exams, and set them up for future success.

Parents volunteer to be reading tutors, which helps them stay engaged in their children's school. The parents are trained by our team members and their school's reading specialists in literacy techniques, games, and curriculum to help students improve their reading skills. Our reading tutors, called Students for Life, help students accelerate their reading skills.

Head Start promotes school readiness by encouraging parent involvement and through children's cognitive, social, emotional, language, and physical development.

Head Start aims for every child to be:

• Achieving developmental milestones
• Safe, healthy, and well
• School ready
• Forming positive relationships

Family Service Head Start is much more than child care; it’s quality early childhood education that includes:

• Research-Based Curricula Lesson plans are built around research on children’s development and learning and promote positive progress and outcomes.
• Family Engagement Parents' and caregivers' involvement in their children’s education has a long-term impact on their child’s success. Our Centers make it easy for parents to be involved.
• Lower Ratios Our classrooms have fewer students per teacher, allowing for more individualized care and attention.
• Wraparound Services Resources and services are provided to help the child and family thrive.

The age requirement for our Head Start Prekindergarten Program is three years old on or before September 1.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Tafolla Middle School.

Empower House’s youth development program creates opportunities for youth to explore their world, achieve their dreams, and inspire their peers.

Our program model is rooted in restorative justice principles, developmental relationships, and feminist, womanist, and mujerista theory.

As a participant in our Youth Development program, you have access to all services. Together with our staff, we'll create a plan to plug into services that are right for you!

• Support with Goal Setting
• Whole Family Support
• Tutoring
• Girl Zone
• Mentorship
• Mental Health and Counseling Services
• Youth Circles
• Family Circles
• Creative Expression
• Skill Building
• Leadership Opportunities
• Service Learning Projects

As an organization, we center on the needs of women and girls but welcome all genders to participate in our programs.

Click here and scroll down to sign up for our Youth Development programs.

Free

Girl Zone's two-week summer camp is open to girls and femme identified youth between the ages of 8 and 18 years old.

Must register online and attend one of the parent orientation meetings.

This is the First Registered Little Free Library and Pantry in San Antonio and close to the oldest public housing complex in town, Alazan Apache Courts. It is located at 816 S Colorado, between El Paso and Guadalupe Streets.

We Accept:

• Non perishables
• Hygeine products
• Books

We do not have a refrigerator.

We also have a Little Free Library at this location.

Free.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at David Crockett Academy.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at JT Brackenridge Academy.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at JT Brackenridge Elementary.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Douglass Academy.

Our Super Church Ministry focuses on presenting the gospel to children in the community.

Ages 5-12 on a level they can comprehend through training them in worship and engaging them in fellowship.

Head Start children receive specialized quality education and comprehensive social services that provide opportunities for our children to learn and succeed when they enter kindergarten.

Education and disability:

• Individualized teaching
• Low child/staff ratios
• Structured routines and schedules
• School readiness skills
• Culturally diverse
• Services for children with disabilities
• Screenings and ongoing assessments
• Individualized activities
• Inclusive classrooms
• Parent advocacy and training

Health:

• Medical and dental case management
• Staff certified in first aid & CPR
• Clean and safe environments
• On site dental exams and fluoride varnish
• Hearing and vision screenings
• Indoor/outdoor physical development

Nutrition:

• Healthy breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Menus developed by registered dietitians

Family support:

• Parent engagement activities and leadership opportunities
• Supporting families to meet their need and achieve goals
• Community resources and services
• School district transportation may be available

The age requirement for our Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (EHS-CCP) Program is 6 weeks – 35 months of age.

Our Early Head Start-Childcare Partnership (EHS-CCP) Program recruits families receiving Child Care Services (CCS). Often times, CCS requires a co-payment, and families are responsible for paying their own co-payment directly to each child care center.

The Summer Extravaganza is a summer camp designed to offer fun and creative learning opportunities to sharpen their reading and math skills.

In addition, there will be enrichment activities involving the arts, yoga, sports, STEM, financial literacy, and educational field trips to explore different museums and attractions around Central Texas. The NBA Foundation, one of WestCare’s Summer Extravaganza sponsors, will support the sports activities during the camp.

Ages 6-15.

Register at Bowden Academy or WestCare Texas, located in the Ella Austin Community Center, 1023 N Pine St. Space is limited to 150 students.

The John Tobin Community Center is an open play center with an indoor gym and two game rooms. Half-court basketball is scheduled daily, and table games are available.

We combat the issues of childhood obesity and physical inactivity by helping youth develop healthy lifestyles through free nutrition education, wholesome snacks, and necessary sustenance each day. Through daily exercise we promote moderate to vigorous physical activity. In addition, SA Youth promotes healthy living by advising against the use of negative behaviors such as smoking, consuming alcohol, and abusing drugs

Students learn basic arm and foot positions of ballet and will be led through various ballet combinations performed at the barre, in the center, and across the floor. Includes fun games, strength building, and balance building exercises. Intended for those with little to no ballet training. Please inform the instructor of any injuries or medical conditions that may hinder physical movement prior to the start of class.

Children ages 5-9

Tuition: By semester, averages $20/class for one weekly class, plus annual registration fee of $40, with discounts for multiple family members enrolling.

The Fairchild Community Center offers a wide variety of programming, including youth sports leagues, arts and crafts, table games, nutrition education, dance, music, and more.

Click here for the monthly calendar for scheduled activities that may affect court usage or call Fairchild Community Center.

Head Start children receive specialized quality education and comprehensive social services that provide opportunities for our children to learn and succeed when they enter kindergarten.

Education and disability:

• Individualized teaching
• Low child/staff ratios
• Structured routines and schedules
• School readiness skills
• Culturally diverse
• Services for children with disabilities
• Screenings and ongoing assessments
• Individualized activities
• Inclusive classrooms
• Parent advocacy and training

Health:

• Medical and dental case management
• Staff certified in first aid and CPR
• Clean and safe environments
• On-site dental exams and fluoride varnish
• Hearing and vision screenings
• Indoor/outdoor physical development

Nutrition:

• Healthy breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Menus developed by registered dietitians

Family support:

• Parent engagement activities and leadership opportunities
• Supporting families to meet their needs and achieve goals
• Community resources and services
• School district transportation may be available

The age requirement for our Head Start Prekindergarten Program is three years old on or before September 1.

Head Start is a federally funded program provided at no cost for qualifying families.