The Post featured SouthSide in a piece highlighting the work we do not only with our students, but with their families as well.
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Variety the Children’s Charity of St. Louis today names Ameren chairman and CEO Warner Baxter and St. Louis volunteer Carol Voss as Variety’s 2017 Man and Woman of the Year.
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Mental Health and Disabilities Coordinator is a not a position you will find in most early childhood centers, but a conversation with Mary Clare Monahan—SouthSide’s in-house Mental Health and Disabilities Coordinator—makes it clear just how critical a position this is.
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When Maria Aubuchon and Daryl McCoy Jr. originally toured SouthSide, they were so impressed by the program that they immediately withdrew their oldest daughter from another Head Start program to enroll her at SouthSide.
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For 130 years, SouthSide Early Childhood Center has been committed to serving children from St. Louis’s most at-risk families, including many from the city’s ever-changing refugee population.
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SouthSide has a diverse student population serving children and families from many different countries.
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Inter-ability friendships are relationships between children of varying physical, cognitive, social, speech, and language abilities.
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Childhood- it conjures up images of playing and laughing, eyes bright with the excitement of learning.
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When Monica Jestes began her teaching career at SouthSide 30 years ago, she hoped to work with an organization that shared the same passion for children and education philosophy as she had—where the programs focused on the children and the families they served.
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At 8:30 every morning, a familiar scene replays in the main hall at SouthSide Early Childhood Center as children and parents begin to arrive for the day.
Read MoreSouthSide Early Childhood Center is pleased to announce that our very own Allan (Al) Meyers has been named a 2016 CFO of the Year by St. Louis Business Journal.
Read MoreDear Families, As of January 2016, SouthSide’s policy regarding weather-related closures is to close whenever St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS) close.
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We all know that being thankful and having children who are thankful is important, but do we know why?
Read MoreSouthSide Early Childhood Center announced today that it is participating in Give STL Day on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, joining hundreds of other local nonprofits in the region’s largest 24-hour day of online giving.
Read MoreAfter a lengthy search, including internal, local and national candidates, the Board of Directors of SouthSide Early Childhood Center is very pleased to name Katie Rahn as the new Executive Director.
Read MoreAll children can benefit from high quality early childhood education, but children from disadvantaged backgrounds stand to gain the most.
Read MoreThank you to all our campaign contributors for investing in the future of St. Louis children by helping SouthSide build our beautiful new home! Click through to the post to see a photo gallery of our new home!
Read MoreIt's hard to believe we have been in our new home for a month, and we love it so much! Click here to see just how happy we were on our first day in this beautiful state-of-the-art building.
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