Early Childhood & Care Services

• ChildCareGroup

  • Services: Provides subsidized and accessible child care services for qualifying families, infant/toddler early education, and specialized professional training for child care providers across North Texas.

• Best Place for Kids!® / Parent Pass App

  • Services: A local Tarrant County public-private initiative and digital resource hub that connects families with early learning, child care options, health tracking, and local family support networks.  

Youth Development, Mentorship & Support

• Rainbow Days

  • Services: Operates evidence-based support groups, positive youth development mentoring, and social-emotional learning programs to help at-risk children and youth cope with life challenges, build resilience, and set goals.  

• ACH Child and Family Services

  • Services: Offers residential care, foster care, adoption services, crisis intervention, and specialized family preservation programs (such as Kinship Navigation) for children and teens navigating severe life changes.  

Advocacy & Safety

• Alliance For Children

  • Services: Tarrant County's designated children's advocacy center providing coordinated investigation, trauma-informed healing services, mental health counseling, and community education to protect children from abuse.  

Here are 20 additional children, youth, and family support resources across the Dallas-Fort Worth area to expand your platform's directory:

Emergency Aid & Critical Safety Nets

• Gill Children's Services

  • Services: Provides last-resort financial assistance for Tarrant County children to cover critical unmet medical, dental, physical, social, psychological, or educational needs.

• Family Gateway

  • Services: Offers emergency shelter, stability transitions, and supportive developmental services for children and families experiencing homelessness in Dallas County.

• The Family Place

  • Services: Provides safe emergency shelter, transitional housing, counseling, and specialized educational/support services for children impacted by domestic violence.

Youth Mentorship, Sports & Enrichment Programs

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas (or Greater Tarrant)

  • Services: After-school programs focusing on academic success, good character, citizenship, and healthy lifestyles for youth ages 6 to 18.

• The Salvation Army North Texas Youth Programs

  • Services: Operates structured after-school programs across DFW with homework assistance, STEM activities, computer labs, arts, and athletic leagues.

• Mercy Street

  • Services: Provides holistic mentorship, team sports programming, and targeted leadership development for students in grades 4 through 12.

• YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth / Dallas Youth Programs

  • Services: Offers youth sports, after-school care enrichment, STEAM activities, and day camps with financial assistance options available.

Early Learning & Childcare Centers

• AVANCE-Dallas

  • Services: Two-generation programs offering parent-child education, early childhood development, ESL classes, and GED training to low-income families.

• Mi Escuelita Preschool

  • Services: Provides high-quality developmental bilingual preschool education to low-income children across multiple locations in Dallas.

• Literacy Achieves

  • Services: Combines comprehensive English literacy classes for adults with dedicated early childhood education programs for their young children.

Tutoring & Academic Advancement

• Readers 2 Leaders

  • Services: Dedicated literacy programs designed to help children in under-resourced communities build strong reading skills from early grades through middle school.

• Education Is Freedom

  • Services: Provides college and career readiness advising, scholarships, and pathway planning for high school youth throughout the region.

• Voice of Hope Ministries

  • Services: Offers year-round after-school and summer programs focused on Christian values, academics, and youth development for kids ages 4 to 18 in West Dallas.

Counseling & Behavioral Health

• Momentous Institute

  • Services: Offers comprehensive therapeutic mental health services, innovative social-emotional training, and educational programs for children and families.

• Centro de Mi Salud

  • Services: Provides bilingual mental and behavioral health services tailored specifically to children, adolescents, and adults.

Family Stability & Special Support

• Buckner International

  • Services: Offers foster care, adoption services, family transition coaching, and transitional housing programs across the DFW metroplex.

• Brother Bill's Helping Hands

  • Services: Features emergency grocery assistance, health clinic access, and targeted educational enrichment programs for families in West Dallas.

• Crossroads Community Services

  • Services: Operates extensive food pantries, nutritional programs, and summer food distribution networks to stabilize households with children.

• Spay Neuter Network

  • Services: Offers low-cost pet healthcare, vaccinations, and pet food assistance to help low-income families maintain healthy household environments for their children.

• Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS)

  • Services: Provides vital public health services including childhood immunizations, WIC nutritional assistance, and community health education.