Rancho Brazos Community Centers

  A soft place to fall, a second home, a second family, a place to come for assistance without judgement to everyone in the Hood County Area. #welovewherewelive

This is Rancho Brazos Community Centers served 9,641 unduplicated people of Hood county in 2021. 

Through our Neighborhood Recreation program and Crossroads Youth program, we offer after school, weekday, organized and supervised activities, as well as similar summer programs during school vacation periods. In 2021 we were able to distribute 5,200 weekend backpack meals through these programs and distributed over 300 books and summer reading packets to our community children to help prevent the summer slide while they were out of school.

RBCC currently offers sports and recreational activities, learning and tutorial support, mentoring of life and language skills, supplemental nutritional availability, and clothing assistance. We work really hard to provide our community kids with a loving environment, while also providing a fun and engaging curriculum to challenge their brains while making, playing and socializing. We have a weekly book club that was started by our 5th graders, weekly STEAM activities, and daily math and reading tutoring sessions. We start every day with a "family talk", a prayer and a warm meal together. 

Family programs and services offered at RBCC include: community dinners, clothing/household items assistance, Parent Cafe© (parenting support group), a business center with internet access, and facilitation of referrals to other service organizations.

Other programming includes substance abuse awareness and prevention education, family fellowship time (like movie and game nights), holiday community meals, a winter blanket distribution, and assistance with baby products (i.e. clothing, diapers, and wipes). Not only are we committed to after-school programming, in addition to an on-going food and hygiene product ministries for people of all ages, benevolence assistance, educational supply assistance, and child abuse and neglect prevention education. Rancho set a new record of gap filling, distributing 51,175 hot boxed meals in 2021.

Our goal, through our partners, is to nurture healthy lifestyles, to allow every child to live in a safe environment, and to ensure each child knows they have a safe space in our community.