At Family Service Presa Community Center, our Youth Education Department is dedicated to empowering and inspiring the next generation. We provide a safe, engaging, and supportive environment where young people can grow, learn, and thrive.
With access to versatile facilities – including a spacious outdoor pavilion, playground, kitchen, and well-equipped classroom – our youth programs offer a wide range of activities and opportunities for learning and recreation.
Our mission is to foster creativity, build confidence, and develop skills that set children and teens up for success in school and beyond. Whether it’s exploring new interests, making friends, or discovering their potential, every child who joins our program has the opportunity to grow.
Presa Youth After School Program
For youth in the ages of 6 through 16.
The Youth After School Program offers:
- Homework tutoring
- Math/Reading enrichment
- Mentorship from supportive adults
- Snacks provided with fun activities
For more information on the Youth After School Program, contact Reyna at 210-689-2360 or email at mreyna@family-service.org
Presa Youth Summer Camp
For youth in the ages of 6 through 13.
The Youth After School Program offers:
- Free breakfast and lunch to all participants
- Fun enrichment activities
- Mentorship
- Educational and fun field trips
For more information on our Youth Summer Camp, contact Margarita Reyna at 210-689-2360 or email at mreyna@family-service.org
Youth Education and Career Programs offered
at Family Service
Support System
Our youth activities and programs are STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) and relationship based.
We know successful people are not an island; they have a support system in place. Our mentors, team members, fellow youths, parents and teachers can be part of that support system.
Our mix of Youth Education and Career Programs offer something for every student and encourage the inclusion of their family and support system. Family Service’s youth programming develops key relationships and demonstrates to our students how many opportunities are available for them in San Antonio and beyond.
Programs include:
- Best Buy Teen Tech Center
- Year-long Mentoring Program
- Youth Summer internship Program
- Youth Led After School Program
- Transition Help from Different Grade Levels
Visit our Youth Education and Career Programs page HERE
We focus on the Search Institute’s Developmental Assets Framework. The framework outlines 40 developmental assets that need to be addressed in children’s and teens’ lives to set them up for success. The assets are divided between internal and external assets such as values, social-emotional learning, and educational opportunities. Research on the Developmental Assets shows “youth who have higher levels of Development Assets are much less likely to engage in a wide range of high-risk behaviors”. By developing our program around these core necessities of life, our students are successful inside and outside of school.
In Texas, 11 students per hour drop out of school. Out of school time programs are proven to encourage better attendance and graduation rates.
Family Service’s youth programs have a 90% promotion and graduation rate.
All of Family Service’s youth programs are STEAM-focused learning partnered with the development of soft skills. Soft skills, such as time management, public speaking and leadership, are incorporated many times through the students themselves. There is a set curriculum for most of our Youth Education and Career Programs, but it allows for the students to uncover where their passions lie and gives them a chance to steer the conversations. The programs are offered at varying times throughout the year and align with each student’s individual goals.
The programs build on a foundation of technology, innovation, and creation to transition youth from consumers of technology into tomorrow’s innovators.
Relationships
Our kids do not develop in a vacuum and are impacted by the relationships they build, the opportunities they take, the friendships they create, and the passions they follow.
Our programs not only help the youth but provide opportunities for the entire family. We connect our clients to other Family Service programs and community partner programs which make sense for their specific individual and family needs.
Help shape the leaders of tomorrow, become a mentor in one of our youth programs.
