Pre-School
ROCA – 222 Cedar Street
Thursday night program from 6-7:30 providing academic and enrichment opportunities and dinner.
Family Strengthening and Preservation Services
Because sometimes families encounter multiple obstacles to their stability and wellness, Waypoint has an array of services to help families at-risk to heal, overcome challenges, build resilience and skills, and gain the tools and resources they need to provide safe, nurturing home environments for their children, and improve long-range family functioning and independence. For a complete list and description of this service array: https://waypointnh.org/programs/familypreservation.
Family Support
Because children don’t come with a “How to Raise Me” guidebook, Waypoint’s Family Resource Centers offer an array of family support services for families with children ages 0-21. Services are designed to help your family through any type of challenge, whether it’s first time parenting, making ends meet, parental substance misuse, housing or employment instability, child wellness, child behaviors, education, or emotional stressors. Services may be provided in the comfort of your family home, or anywhere else you feel comfortable in the community.
Peer-to-peer grief support groups
The Friends of Aine Center, located in Manchester, NH, provides FREE peer-to-peer support groups for grieving children, teens, and families. In New Hampshire, 1 in 12 children will experience the death of a parent or sibling before age 18. Childhood bereavement is a prevalent and critical public health issue that can have a profound impact on a child’s future wellbeing. Friends of Aine is the only non-profit organization in NH whose sole mission is to support grieving families.
LAUNCH at Amoskeag Health
LAUNCH Manchester provides this optional program to families with young children ages (0-8) and pregnant women who receive health services at Amoskeag Health. LAUNCH provides families with access to a variety of internal resources and external referrals to ensure all young children and their families have what they need to thrive. Families may receive access to: concrete supports to meet immediate needs, financial empowerment tools, support accessing and managing state benefits, support with existing service coordination and referrals to community resources like family support, mental health, tax assistance and Family Centered Early Supports and Services among others.
Ready Set LAUNCH at Amoskeag Health
Ready Set LAUNCH is a FREE, one-time newborn home visit service available to all Manchester residents who give birth at the Elliot Hospital. After giving birth, families are introduced to the Newborn Navigator who will explain the service and inquire about scheduling the visit. Visits are currently occurring remotely. Prior to the visit, participants will receive a Welcome Baby Bag with newborn essentials. During the visit, the Newborn Navigator will support the family by understanding how their transition from the hospital home has been, inquire about existing needs, and provide access to community resources and referrals.
Should the Newborn Navigator determine a family is eligible and could benefit from Enhanced Navigation, an additional five home visits will be provided. These additional visits will provide additional resources and targeted support to address specific needs
Baby Storytime
This storytime is for 6-24 months and will meet on Friday mornings at 10am. We will be social distancing for this program so space is limited and registration is required for your family group.
FIRST @Home
As a global robotics community that prepares young people for the future, FIRST ® is committed to continuing our efforts to give students the skills and confidence they need to change the world – today and tomorrow. FIRST @Home is your source to learn about opportunities for STEM skill development, FIRST supported activities, and unique events in the FIRST community
Immunizations
Immunization is our best defense in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccines are provided free of charge for all children through 18 years of age.
Immunization services are provided during specified clinic times and all clients are reminded to bring a copy of your current immunization record with you. Go to https://www.manchesternh.gov/Departments/Health/Clinics/Immunization for current
clinic times.
Easterseals NH Child Development Centers
The Easterseals NH Child Development Centers follow the National Association for the Education of Young Children quality standards. We provide an inclusive, comprehensive child development program for children from six weeks to five years of age ensuring quality, innovative educational programs. Our qualified staff is trained in ECE, first aid, and CPR. Our Child Development Centers are a fun place to learn & grow. We provide breakfast, lunch, and snacks and meet or exceed USDA guidelines. In addition, we provide FREE diapers, wipes, Similac infant formula and sunscreen for the children. Our open door policy encourages daily communication between caregivers and families. Our Child Development Centers have rolling admission with a waiting list.
YMCA Early Learning Center
Our program stimulates children’s intellectual, social, emotional, and physical growth. We provide a highly trained staff in a warm, caring, and fun environment that encourages their natural curiosity and personal expression. Our age-appropriate curriculum helps academically engage children while emphasizing social skills, imaginative play, and motor development. Children participate in fun physical activities and character-building programs such as:
- Group games & team-building activities
- Physical education classes
- Story time and reading
- Arts & crafts
- Before and after school care
- Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack
- Comprehensive Early Learning Curriculum
- Swimming Lessons
All of our programs and activities incorporate the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. When your child is enrolled full-time in the Early Learning Center, you receive a FREE family membership.
The Granite YMCA: Downtown Manchester Membership
Membership types are based on all members living within the same household. Membership types can be changed based on the members’ needs. We offer two tiers of membership participation: facility membership for full service facility usage and community membership for access to programs. As a Facility Member, you have access to all of our branches. You can utilize in-house fitness programs such as group fitness classes, fitness coaching, indoor cycling, yoga and other walk-in classes at all facilities or simply come play basketball during open gym, swim laps, and enjoy the pool during open swim at select branches. Facility Members also benefit from significant program discounts (up to 50% off), 25% off the YMCA’s camping programs, and have registration priority on Y classes and programs.
Storytime Science
Toddlers are encouraged to think about the world around them using a story and an activity. We will introduce STEM topics through storytelling, movement, experiments and discovery.
For more information, visit our website!
Media Power Youth Out-Of-School Programming
Media Power Youth provides a wide variety of youth programs during afterschool, summer, and vacation weeks through local youth serving organizations. We work collaboratively with these organizations to create custom programming that fits the needs of their youth. These programs are designed to help students build 21st century skills including critical-thinking, self-regulation, social awareness, and empathic communication by engaging students in the media that shape our world. Topics include digital citizenship, media and mental health, news literacy, managing screentime, leadership & advocacy, music analysis, and film. Media is constantly evolving and we regularly update our programs to address this dynamic landscape. Many of our programs feature media creation elements that help students learn new technology skills and find their own voice advocating for themselves and the people they care about.
Programming is available at various locations, please contact us for more information.
Media Power Youth Teaching and Classroom Resources
Media Power Youth offers media literacy and health curricula, including Media Literacy for Safe & Health Choices and Screenshots (digital wellness). We also partner with schools to address real-time media challenges, such as cyberbullying and the influence of media on substance use. We provide teacher’s guides, infographics, instructional materials, and other communication tools to support school initiatives. We host parent and family educational events and facilitate learning activities as a classroom guest. Our goal is to support educators and counselors in building students’ critical thinking and social emotional skills while inspiring creative media making and exploration across a range of academic subjects.
If you are an educator or youth-serving professional, please contact us to learn about our available resources.