SHS Services & Partners: Helping Families Find Support for their Children’s Preschool Education 

SHS, Inc. Non-Profit Services & Partners

Through partner providers and school collaboration, we ensure children and families are covered aptly and qualitatively through ample resources and assistance fundamental to early childhood development, and that coverage remains reliably resourced and accessible to children within the surrounding area.

At SHS Preschool, Every Child is Welcome

  • Infants 2+mo

  • Babies 18-24/mo

  • Toddlers 2-3/yrs

  • Toddlers 4-6/yrs

Collaboration

  • We advocate for the rights and development of children by supporting families across the local area through non-profit services, school resources and partner programs

  • We recognize that true educational success is deeply connected to the health and well-being of family stability. Our goal is to break down potential barriers and offer families guided assistance, so that their children’s potential can be nurtured.

  • We provide high-quality early childhood education that empowers children from all backgrounds. Our comprehensive programs are designed not only to prepare children academically but prepare them internally as confident, self-aware, independent and mindful students ready for the next road ahead.

The Benefits of Enrolling Your Child in a Non-Profit Preschool

  • As a non-profit organization, President Lyndon B. Johnson established Stonewall Head Start, Inc. to give families opportunities that had not been available at that time; however, while times have shifted significantly from what they were fifty-years ago today, the challenges of raising children amidst rising costs of living and economic pressures remain similar.

    In that regard, Johnson equipped our organization to scale the test of time as a leader that remains a foundationally secured education fixture and commodity resource hub for the essential services offered within the local community.

    The driving force LBJ stood for, which is our purpose - is all for the children. By allowing families the opportunity to invest better in their children via access to resources and services during their most formidable early years, its long-term effects results in an even wiser investment for what they bring to the future.

    Therefore, investing in Stonewall Head Start means investing in the future of your children - future generations of an empowered and enriched educated youth, ready for the next big road ahead, eager to learn and expand their minds, inspired to create and become so much more - but more importantly, ready to make all of the future tomorrows brighter with happy smiles.

Services

  • SHS Community Center Preschools provide comprehensive services that integrate with the following key aspects fundamental in high quality early childhood education:

    1. Education - We qualify children's needs for development in the most optimal learning environments.

    2. Nutrition - We provide children with two full nutritional meals and afternoon snacks.

    3. Health - We prioritize children's health through clean and sanitary facilities, hygiene practices and clean-up routines, and sick protocols for quarantine.

    4. Social - We follow a code of conduct, centered around ethics, moral values and Christian faith. Children understand concepts through team building and personal experiences to situations. 

    5. Subsidies - We provide families with access to school and partner-provided services for tuition relief and other resources.

  • We adhere to routine operations, performed in-house, that promote core structured patterns of consistency and maintaining facilities to produce high-quality experiences for the children entrusted to us. We make environments clean, feel safe, comfortable, accommodating, and a happy place children look forward to.

    Features Include:

    • Multiple clean bathrooms

    • Kitchen, food & wash spaces

    • Versatile, adaptable classrooms

    • Comfort mats for quiet time

    • Personalized classroom cubbies

    • Favorite snuggy from home

    • Smart-security door technology

    • Restricted-visitor, limited access

    • High-fence, fortified playscapes

  • We partner with programs that supply our schools with quality foods and nutrition, allowing us to provide healthy meals and snacks for our kids, and we partner with childcare assistance programs, offering tuition scholarships.

    • Eligibility is based on family unit income and qualified through partner provider’s application process for review.

    These programs are federally administered by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), state-run Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) and its regional and rural subsidiaries, Workforce Solutions.

  • SHS Preschools partner with the following organizations:

    • Workforce Solutions Alamo Child Care Services

    • Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area Child Care Services

    • Child and Adult Care Food Program.

    • Texas Rising Star

Program Eligibility & Applications

  • For questions on partner’s services, eligibility requirements or assistance in applications, contact SHS Admin Office or submit a query through the Admin Help Desk portal.

    The SHS Admin Office is located inside Fredericksburg Community Preschool. Please direct your needs to Paul Carlyle.

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Partners

  • Workforce Solutions Alamo (WSA) Child Care Services (CCS) program provides eligible families throughout the Alamo Region with child care scholarships to help cover child care costs while working, attending school, or participating in job training.

    Workforce Solutions Alamo (WSA) serves as the governing board for the regional workforce system of the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).

  • Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area benefits families, providers and local communities by assisting parents with tuition assistance who are striving to become self-sufficient and by providing child care technical assistance and training to child care providers through Workforce Solutions, the Texas Workforce Commission's (TWC) Child Care Services (CCS) program in our nine-county area.

  • Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) Texas Rising Star Program is a Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) that provides a systematic approach to assess, improve, and communicate the level of quality in child care and early learning programs. By participating in Texas Rising Star, programs engage in a process of continuous quality improvement. Families seeking child care service and child care subsidies assistance, are encouraged to enroll with a Texas Rising Star Program Provider.

    Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is the state agency charged with overseeing and providing workforce development services to employers and job seekers of Texas. TWC strengthens the Texas economy by providing the workforce development component of the Governor’s economic development strategy.

  • The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federal program that provides reimbursements for nutritious meals and snacks to eligible children and adults who are enrolled for care at participating child care centers, day care homes, and adult day care centers. CACFP also provides reimbursements for meals served to children and youth participating in afterschool care programs, children residing in emergency shelters, and adults over the age of 60 or living with a disability and enrolled in day care facilities. CACFP contributes to the wellness, healthy growth, and development of young children and adults in the United States.

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