• Founded in 1984, our preschool program is the Midwest's first full inclusion preschool where children with and without special needs participate in all activities together.
• We support children between the ages of 2 years to 6 years.
• The program prepares children of all abilities to enter the kindergarten of their choice with appropriate supports.
• Our teachers foster an environment where children with and without disabilities and developmental delays learn and play together, care about each other and enrich each other’s lives.
• Our preschool program helps children with disabilities and developmental delays to learn social and academic skills from their typically developing peers.
• The Belle Center's full inclusion program encourages children without special needs to learn compassion and respect for people of all abilities.

About University City Children's Center
University City Children’s Center (UCCC) is a nonprofit United Way agency committed to providing quality care and education to a racially, culturally, socioeconomically and developmentally diverse population of children.

• UCCC supports children between the ages of 6 weeks to 6 years.
• The center offers an innovative educational program focused on individual development while providing supportive services for families.
• The unique curriculum is literacy rich, emotionally responsive, and value and character driven.
• UCCC emphasizes the process of developing the whole child. The organization feels its program is doing more than preparing students academically; the staff is developing a sense of personhood and citizenship in each child they serve.
• UCCC’s ambitious conceptual understanding of early childhood has made it a leader in the St. Louis early childhood area.