Kingsbridge Heights Community Center

KHCC provides resources to empower Bronx residents from cradle to career to advance education and well-being for a vibrant community. We achieve this in an environment that fosters academic milestones, literacy, mental health support, nutrition, technology, and the arts.

All of our programs use a strengths-based approach that empowers people to lead independent, self-sufficient lives. Our comprehensive community programming provides individuals, from birth through adulthood, with services across five divisions:

Early Childhood Services: Our early childhood programs—including Early Head Start, Early Learn, Head Start, Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK), and Family Childcare Network—provide children, birth-5, with nurturing, educational environments where they can learn, grow, and thrive. We help parents of the children we serve develop skills to become effective caregivers and create nurturing home environments.

Youth Services: We provide a safe, welcoming environment during afterschool hours where young people can socialize, learn, and grow. Our programs include elementary and middle school afterschool, summer day camp, Teen Center for high school aged youth to develop leadership skills, College Directions focused on post-secondary education success, and a Respite program for young people, up to age 25, with special needs.

Adult and Family Services: We provide a range of services and supports to adults and families that help break generational cycles of abuse, neglect, and poverty. At the heart of this division is Changing Futures, an intervention for survivors of child sexual abuse and their non-offending family members, and Parenting Journey that helps struggling parents at risk of having their children placed in foster care learn self-care and parenting skills. Other offerings include English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes and recreation.

Nutrition and Food Access Services: Participants in all programs receive nutrition education and opportunities to grow their own food in our thriving community garden. We offer a diverse array of programing such as internships, cook shops and chef battles, intergenerational gardening, and family cooking classes. To further support food access, we operate a seasonal food pantry and offer 30 garden plots for community members to grow their own vegetables.