Our mission is to create a safe environment that enables children to reach their full potential.

CREATE (Children’s Recreation, Education, Arts, and Therapeutic Experience) provides our children, from infancy to fifth grade, with the wraparound care that Metropolitan Ministries is known for. We help our children by exposing them to executive function, prosocial programming, emotion coaching, and wonderful childhood experiences.

We work diligently to provide each child with the therapeutic, academic, and emotional support they need to develop resilience, promote health, and grow into happy, successful adults. Every day, we're inspired by the joy, curiosity, and strength our children bring to the world!

CREATE is supported in part by Children's Board of Hillsborough County, State of Florida, Reinvestment Fund, Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida, Conn Memorial Foundation, Hobbs Foundation, Saunders Foundation, Suncoast Credit Union, United Way of Pasco County, Early Learning Coalition of Hillsborough County, Early Learning Coalition of Pasco/Hernando, Patel Conservatory at the Straz Center, Head Start of Hillsborough County, and Head Start of Pasco County.