Small Business Challenge

The Children Services Council of St. Lucie County along with the St. Lucie Chamber of Commerce has established the Small Business Challenge Program to help incentivize the use of locally owned St. Lucie County businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, whil...

Family Guide to Programs

ATTN: Our updated Family Guides are now available to download. These family-friendly resources are packed full of information about our funded program partners including their contact info.

You can view the document online, OR if you’d like copie...

Help Me Behave

Recently, a young boy named Ian was referred to the Help Me Behave program, facilitated by Helping People Succeed.  At the time, this two-year-old was exhibiting behaviors that concerned his child care provider and his parents. Staff at the child...

St. Lucie Reads

The St. Lucie Reads initiative is a public campaign to ensure that students are reading at grade level by 3rd grade. Through partnerships with local businesses and organizations, we are working together as a community to support the efforts of: school rea...

COUNCIL EXPANDS PROGRAMS TO KEEP KIDS OFF THE STREETS THIS SUMMER

To help make sure kids are off the streets and in safe, fun learning environments this summer, the Children’s Services Council has approved $370,000 in funding to expand summer activities for children in St. Lucie County.

For the past twenty year...

List of Fun & Educational activities

Here are a list of fun and educational activities: 

List of fun and education activities 

When School Is Closed: Resources to Keep Kids Learning at Home

When School Is Closed: Ideas to keep kids reading, writing, exploring and learning at home.

Some schools and afterschool programs are closing in response to the coronavirus. If this is happening in your community, you may be looking for engaging ways to ke...

How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus

News about the coronavirus and precautionary measures to slow its spread have become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. Caregivers, educators, parents, and other trusted adults can help kids make sense of what they see and hear.

The books in our Hy...