​Children Resources and Services
Baptist Children’s Homes’ Oak Ranch
2092 Oaktrail Lane
Sanford, NC 27330
Mailing address: P. O. Box 400
Broadway, NC 27505
Contact: Phillip P. Richmond, Director
(919)258-5437
Fax: (919)258-5617
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.bchfamily.org/RANCH
Description: Outcome-based residential child care program for at-risk boys and girls ages 8-17. Includes specialized equine therapy component. Program offers clarification/value change, continuing care, and after care services.
Eligibility: Boys and girls ages 8-17.
Hours: 8:30am -5:00pm Monday-Friday (administrative)
Intake: Call or email request
Languages: English, Spanish
Fees: Sliding scale determination
Boys & Girls Club of Sanford/Lee County Inc.
Contact: Daniel Simmonds, Executive Director
Contact: Brandon Kivett, Area Director
Administration:
1013 Carthage Street
Sanford, NC 27330
(919)776-6304
Mail: P. O. Box 2027
Sanford, NC 27331-2027
Fax: (919)775-2582
Eligibility: Lee County school-aged children up to  high school
Hours: 6:30AM -6:00PM on summer of
“full days” when kids are out of school.
2:00PM – 6:30PM on school days.
Intake: Call to request membership application or apply at 1414 Bragg Street.
Fees: Annual membership costs no more than $52 and is available on a first come first served basis.
Languages: English and Spanish
Website: CENTRALCAROLINACLUBS.ORG/

Boys & Girls Club of Sanford/Lee County Inc.
OT Sloan Park B&G Club
(919)776-3525
1414 Bragg Street
Sanford, NC 27330
BLANDONIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
402 S. HORNER BLVD.
SANFORD, NC 27330
(919)774-4122
SERVICES: CHILDCARE SUPERVISION AND TRAINING FOR 2 (MUST BE POTTY TRAINED) TO 12 YEARS OLD. NEED PHYSICAL AND SHOT RECORD. PREPARE CHILD FOR KINDERGARTEN. CARE FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN AGES 5-12 BEFORE/AFTER SCHOOL. SUMMER PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN. TRANSPORT CHILDREN TO AND FROM SCHOOL.
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH AND SPANISH
FEES: SLIDING SCALE. CONTACT OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
STEPPING STONES CHILDREN'S CENTER
1550 KELLY DRIVE
SANFORD, NC 27330
(919)708-7866
LICENSED DAYCARE ALSO OFFERING CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.
Coalition for Families
507 N. Steele Street, Sanford, NC 27330
Phone: (919)774-8144
Website: COALITIONFORFAMILIES.ORG/
Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) (919)776-7157
Services: A multi-dimensional program designed for parents and child care providers. CCR&R provides information to parents that will help them choose affordable, quality care. They will provide unbiased referrals to all licensed child care facilities. CCR&R also serves as a resource for all child care providers to have access to knowledge and materials that will create a learning environment within their facility. Training for all child care providers is offered and credit hours are handed out. A ‘Resource Library’ is available for membership to all child care providers and parents for a small fee.
Languages: English and Spanish

Parents as Teachers
(919)774-8144
Services: A home visitation program for families with children birth to five. A parent educator shares child development information from the National Parents as Teachers curriculum and an age appropriate activity each month. The focus of this program is to prepare children for kindergarten and to provide parent support. Parent group meetings, community activities, and developmental screenings are offered throughout the year. A learning center is also available for parent groups and individuals to use providing children with age appropriate learning through play materials.
Eligibility: Children must be between the ages of birth to five years of age. No income eligibility required.

Sister Love
(919)774-8144
Service: An infant mortality reduction initiative for African-American women of childbearing ability. Program focus includes: health education, group support activities, incentive programs, home visitation, exercise component, and community outreach.

Teen Pregnancy Prevention/Adolescent Parenting Program
(919)774-8144
Services: Pregnancy Prevention – During and after school classes are held for middle and high school students to learn about good decision making, taking responsibility, etc. Service learning and field trips are also provided. New referrals are taken each school year. Adolescent Parenting is for pregnant and parenting teens who are staying in school. Referrals are taken anytime. Group sessions held during the school day that focus on daily life issues. Individual home visits are also made on a monthly basis to teach parenting skills.
Eligibility: Pregnancy prevention – an at-risk teen in middle or high school. Adolescent parenting – must be pregnant or parent teen in school (public or private)
Languages: English and Spanish with some limitations.
Lee County Partnership for Children
143 Chatham Street
Sanford, NC 27330
(919)774-9496
Hours: Monday through Thursday 8am to 5pm, Friday 8am to 2pm
Clients: children birth to five years old.
Services: Administer North Carolina pre-K (free to four years old). Childcare subsidy, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, Reach Out and Read Literacy Program, support to child care centers to increase and maintain quality. Priority given to children experiencing homeless for NC pre-K, and childcare subsidy.
Eligibility: children birth to five years old in Lee County. Subsidy parents must be working or in school. (Temp job-seeking vouchers available.) Homeless families do not deed to be on waiting list, served immediately. For NC pre-K there is no requirement, homeless families are automatically eligible and are at top of list.