Alexandria Tutoring Consortium is the primary OPMH mission related to children's issues. ATC's goal is ensuring that every public school child reads at grade level by second grade. ATC pairs students with volunteer tutors who, working singly or in pairs, tutor for 30 minutes three times a week. Post-tutoring tests reveal that the average ATC student raised his/her reading level by one year and four months!

The program—a partnership with Alexandria City Public Schools—was founded in 1997 by former Meeting House pastor Gary Charles. Today it encompasses 23 local interdenominational congregations and ten elementary schools, and is the largest tutoring partnership in the city.

The Meeting House provides direct financial support, tutors, and office space for ATC.

The Meeting House supports the following additional child-related missions.

• Alive! Child Development Center provides accredited, year-round, fulltime child care for low-income families, as well as a family support worker with a master of social work degree. Daycare fees are on a sliding scale.  The Meeting House provides direct financial support to the program.

• Bienvenidos supports the Alexandria Latino community and promotes cross-cultural communication and understanding. Programs have included ESL classes, computer literacy training, mentoring for elementary school students, income tax assistance, telephone/walk-in referral service for health care, social services, education, and employment. "Building Better Futures” is a Bienvenidos tutoring and mentoring program for Latino students at T.C. Williams High School. The Meeting House provides direct financial support to the program and sponsored a Concert with a Cause for its benefit.

• Community Partners for Children, an Alexandria-based agency, administers the year-round Back-to-School Supplies Program, December Holiday Gifts program, and the Knitting Project, through which knitted items are distributed to disadvantaged families.  The Meeting House provides direct financial support to the program.

• Fund for Alexandria's Child, administered by the city's Department of Human Services, enables the normal experiences of childhood for Alexandria's foster children and others in danger of abuse or neglect. The fund, which relies solely on contributions, provides for camp tuition, music lessons, graduation gowns, scout uniforms and other items.  The Meeting House provides direct financial support to the program.