WHERE WE SERVE
Healy Murphy Child Development Center
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At the Healy-Murphy Child Development Center, we believe in caring for the whole child. Our dynamic curriculum helps your child build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills necessary to grow up happy, healthy, and ready for school.
Daycare is available for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years (including pre-K 3-5).
The Child Development Center accepts payments from the city of San Antonio’s CCS (Child Care Services) program. We are a certified provider in the Texas Rising Star program. This means that our program offers care and early childhood education of the highest quality to your child.
Our commitment to your child includes:
Learning through play and discovery. Understanding your child’s individual needs. Free weekly well-checks and nutrition consultations with pediatric nurse practitioners from the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Community Nursing. Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks. Open Monday through Friday 6:30 AM-6:00 PM
Healy-Murphy Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that has been impacting youth in San Antonio for over 120 years. Students who have had difficulty succeeding in a traditional school environment can find the one-on-one attention, individualized curriculum, counseling, childcare, and health services they need to succeed in school and in life.
Healy-Murphy Center offers:
High school and GED programs
Daycare for infants and toddlers ages 6 weeks to 5 years
Health services for Healy-Murphy clients, including Well Baby/Well Mommy check-ups
The mission of Healy-Murphy Center is to provide compassionate service to opportunity youth by focusing on individualized education in a non-traditional setting, early childhood development, and essential support services.
Healy-Murphy Center holds a unique place in the history of education, not just in San Antonio but in the entire state of Texas. In 1888, Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, an Irish immigrant and widow, decided to use her own money to impact the lives of some of the state’s most underserved residents: African American children. She used her personal funds to build St. Peter Claver Academy, the first privately funded school for African Americans in the state. She also constructed a chapel on the campus, which was the first Catholic parish for African Americans in the state. Shortly after the school opened, Mrs. Murphy and her teachers were threatened by bigotry from members of the community, including the Ku Klux Klan, who objected to the school’s mission. In response, she founded the Sisters of the Holy Ghost (now known as the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate) to run the school in 1893. This was another historic first as the first Catholic community of religious women founded in Texas.
The Sisters of the Holy Spirit ran St. Peter Claver until 1970, when the mission was expanded to serve the needs of a new generation of underserved children: opportunity youth. Like Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy nearly a century early, Sr. Mary Boniface pioneered the right for all children to receive a free high-quality education by creating Healy-Murphy Center, a non-profit learning center that provided the social and emotional support troubled teens needed to succeed in school and in life. Healy-Murphy Center’s holistic, individualized approach to education earned it the distinction of being the first accredited alternative education program in the state.
Learn more about the Healy-Murphy Center