BAWCC’s Programs: Our Services, Projects and Initiatives

BAWCC’s Center on Leavenworth Street in the Heart of the Tenderloin
BAWCC’s Family Center at Tenderloin Community School

Bay Area Women’s & Children’s Center has two main locations, our Center in the very “heart” of the Tenderloin community, and our Family Center which was built right into the Tenderloin Community Elementary School.

BAWCC does programs at other locations throughout the neighorhood, such as the Ice Skating program that we do with Yerba Buena Ice Skating Center in the South of Market.

Through all of BAWCC’s programs, at all of our locations, we work with nearly 600 families, children, and women every single week, most of them, on a daily basis. The services and programs address basic human needs such as food and clothing, but also provide educational stepping-stones such as literacy/reading and technology.

A primary question was ask as we establish each of our programs is “Will this program or service open up life options for these families, children, and women?”  If the answer is “Yes”, we move ahead in establishing the program. We listen very carefully to the needs expressed by the women and families with whom we work.  Both our large and small programs, at all of our locations, have been created this way, and they have impacted the lives of thousands of families, children and women over the years.