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The Children’s Center, Inc.’s mission is to empower low-income families to achieve economic self-sufficiency; provide high quality, high-impact educational child care programming; and maintaining a commitment of excellence while promoting the physical, social, emotional, spiritual and cognitive development of each individual child in Beaufort County, SC.

The Children’s Center, the second oldest non-profit on Hilton Head Island, SC., the first being the Bargain Box thrift store, was founded in 1967 by community leaders Reverend Isaac Wilborn and Billie Hack. Mrs. Hack founded the Bargain Box thrift store as well. The Bargain Box has partnered with the Children’s Center since our inception and provided strong financial  and mission support for our tuition assistance program.  Without such support the Center could not fulfill its mission year after year. Rev. Wilborn and Mrs. Hack, understood that all children, whatever their economic situation, have the same needs: caring, guidance and safety. They knew that if those needs were met, children can move forward productively and happily. The Children's Center is one of the highest impact pre-school early learning programs in our community.

For nearly four decades, The Children’s Center has quietly and profoundly affected the lives of thousands Hilton Head Island children.  Each day, the lives of over 250 children are touched by a remarkable staff, each of whom understands just how important their work is. 

Through the years, the Center has grown from serving fifteen children to more than two hundred and fifty. Our mission has remained constant throughout its history: to empower low-income families to achieve economic self-sufficiency through the provision of quality, safe and affordable early childhood education services for parents who would otherwise be unable to afford such care.

The Children’s Center, Inc. is not a government-funded agency and therefore relies heavily upon the resources provided by local individuals, organizations, and foundations, including United Way of the Lowcountry, Inc. It is with the support of the local community that the Center is able to open its doors each morning to our families.

Testimonials:

“As the parent of two children at the Center and a fourth grade teacher, I am consistently impressed with how well The Children’s Center prepares the children for public school. They arrive at first grade with an academic head start and with a wonderfully positive attitude about school”

Cara Saylor
Children’s Center parent and public school teacher

“When I attended the Children’s center as a child, there was such a feeling of warmth and love there- it felt like an extension of my family. I learned to respect and care about others and I learned how important it was to give 110%. Now, as a teacher at the Center, I help the children learn those same lessons.”

Nyisha Mitchell
Children’s Center Teacher

The Children's Center, Inc.
145 Mathews Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
Phone: 843-681-2739 Fax : 843-681-3875

Bluffton Site
20-B Bridge Street, Bluffton, SC 29910
Phone : 843-757-5549 Fax : 843-757-4959