Child and Youth Services provides the Ft. Jackson community with
quality child development options and youth programs, which can reduce the
conflict between parenting responsibilities and mission requirements, enhance
the development of children and youth and engage them in constructive activities
during their discretionary time.
Child and Youth Servics Central
Enrollment Office located in room AO1 of the Joe E. Mann Community Center, 3392
on the corner of Magruder Avenue and Gregg St., provides one-stop service for
families interested in registering their children for child and youth services.
Vacancy information and waiting lists are maintained there, as is information
for all available programs. The office also offers babysitting training and
referral,
installation-to-installation and off-post referrals.
Youth
Sponsorship
PSC'ing soon?
Is your family PCSing to Fort Jackson soon?
Would you like more information on Child & Youth Services Programs or would
you like to be linked to a sponsor to help you learn about the area or just make
a new friend? We welcome you and want to hear from you!
CYS
Welcome Wagon
New to Fort Jackson? Let's the CYS Welcome Wagon
visit your child/youth. Children/youth currently enrolled in CYS
programs visit newcomer's to the community welcoming them with smiling faces and
a bag of gifts and letting them know that Fort Jackson is a great place to
live! If you would like your child welcomed to the community, please
contact the YESS Director at 751-3053.
Child Development
Centers
There are two child development centers on Ft. Jackson with
sufficient space to meet the diverse needs of the community. The Scales Avenue
Center is open Monday through Friday from 5:15 a.m. until 6:30p.m. The center
has an operating capacity for 359 children and provides primary full-day care.
In addition, the center offers part-time options for parents employed on a less
than full-time basis and a Part Day Preschool Program for non-working parents.
On Sundays, the center provides hourly care in support of chapel
services.
The Hood Street Center is open Monday through Friday from 7:30
a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and the second and fourth Fridays of the month from 6 to 11
p.m. The center has an operating capacity for 60 children and provides hourly
care.
Curriculum for all center programs is child-oriented with an
emphasis on creative, age-appropriate activities, which encourage children to
acquire knowledge about themselves and their environment. The centers are
committed to providing quality options for the children of the Fort Jackson
Community.
FAMILY CHILD CARE
The Family Child Care Program is a
system of home-based childcare. Family members living in government housing who
provide childcare for more than 10 hours per week on a regular basis are
required to be certified through this program. This requirement does not apply
to care given in the child's home. Family Child Care applicants go through an
extensive certification process before being allowed to care for children in
their government quarters. Once certified, these individuals provide services
that offer an alternative to an/or complement the care given in centers. Some
providers on Ft. Jackson offer extended hours of care that meets the needs of
soldiers in drill status and those working shifts.
For more information
on any of the above programs, please contact the Child and Youth Services
Central Registration personnel, whose contact numbers can be found under the
"Contacts/Links" in this section.