Wesley-Rankin Community Center was founded in 1902 as the Greater Dallas Board of City Missions.  Our history includes five different locations for service.

Wesley-Rankin serves a neighborhood that is home to more than 1,400 low-income families of predominantly Hispanic heritage.  Many of our programs also reach beyond our immediate neighborhood into the West Dallas African American community. Each year the Center provides primary care to more than 1,500 people, of those, 40% are adults and 60% are children.

OUR MISSION:
To build a stronger, multi-generational West Dallas community characterized by active and empowered citizens, including more graduates and more responsible parents, with growing self-determination and advancing economic independence.
         
OUR GOALS:
To combat dropout rates through programming for at-risk and adjudicated youth; provide educational opportunities (GED, ESL, computer); be an effective Resource Center; affect social change and advance economic independence; provide job skills training; and match program opportunities to meet community needs.

Wesley-Rankin Facts

Services Provided By Wesley-Rankin Community Center
January – December 2005*

Meals Served.....................................................................41,442
Headstart............................................................................14,080
Elementary............................................................................5,536
Youth......................................................................................3,306
Seniors..................................................................................9,200
Teen Parenting........................................................................268
Adult (inc. food for families and educational classes)......3,369
Care4Kids**.............................................................................992
Evacuees....................................................................................30
Total.....................................................................................36,781

*Numbers reflect each time an individual service was provided based on monthly program enrollment average daily attendance, and may include duplication of service.

**Served 450 children with back to school supplies in August, and served 170+ families and 542 children during Care4Kids event through combined agency effort of Wesley-Rankin Community Center, Trinity River Mission, and Christ Foundry..