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School Age Services (SAC)

Current Offerings: September - December 2025

School-age children can enroll in before and after school care, back up care for school holidays and school closing days, open recreation and full day summer camp programs for children kindergarten through fifth grade at DTA CDC. SAC provides children the opportunity to live and learn in a relaxed, “un-school like” setting in an effort to promote character values while reducing conflicts with parental responsibilities.  All SAC programs are centered on the Army’s Four Core Service Areas: 
 
  • Health, Fitness & Nutrition
  • Arts, Recreation and Leisure
  • Academic Support
  • Mentoring
SAC offers a relaxed, balanced program with time to play and learn with friends, finish homework in our homework lab, and let off steam in our multipurpose room. SAC recognizes the growing physical, intellectual, and social competence of school-age children. They want to make things, build things, act out new dramatic possibilities, explore technology in our tech lab, read a book, construct imaginary worlds with dolls or Legos® and, most importantly have some free choice.   SAC reinforces their drive to learn with new challenges and opportunities to get out into the world.
Open Rec Nights

Open Rec Night at Detroit Arsenal CDC gives youth a chance to meet up and take an interest in different recreation activities. This laid back environment takes into consideration potential development in peer connections through hanging out and participating in activities such as, but not limited to technology, art, STEM, Esports, cooking, homework help, sports and fitness and more! 

Current schedule: 
September 19, 2025 (enrollment opens September 6): Back to School Scavenger Hunt & Super Mario Kart Tournament
 
October 17, 2025 (enrollment opens October 3): Harvest Night and Super Smash Bros Tournament
 
November 7, 2025 (enrollment opens October 24): Thanksgiving Bingo
 
December 5, 2025 (enrollment opens November 5): Parents Night Out - Holiday Cookie Decorating and Super Mario Tournament
 
 
To register, visit Webtrac or contact Parent Central Services at 586-282-9122. Must be eligible to use Child and Youth Services. 

 

Drop in STEM Days

Join us for some open STEM time in our Center of Innovation! Activities will vary per day. Examples of activities include but not limited to robotics, video game creation, Claymation, coding, photography, battle bots, OSMO, RC cars, blaze pods, snap circuits, experiments, LEGOS escape rooms, and more! 

Youth can stay the entire time or it can be drop in just for a few hours! All youth must be registered with CYS to attend. To register for CYS programs and activities, contact Parent Central Services. If you are already registered with CYS, enroll in Drop in STEM Days online in Webtrac. 

Grades 6-12
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Held at the Center of Innovation at the Detroit Arsenal Child Development Center
FREE!
Youth are required to bring a sack lunch, water, and snacks. 
 
November 4, 2025 

December 31, 2025 

 

School Out Days

School Out Days can be viewed and requests for care can be submitted through Military Child Care. If you need any assistance with requests for care, please contact Parent Central Services at 586-282-9122. 

Before & After School Care

Our Before & After school program follows Warren Consolidated Schools schedule and busses to/from. Children enrolled in Before/After care will be automatically enrolled in half days, school breaks, and school closures.  To request for care for our before & after school care program, please visit Military Child Care. For all questions please contact Parent Central Services at 586-282-9122. 

 

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Child and Youth Services (CYS) Parent Advisory Committee (PAC)

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