SERVICES
TRANSPORTATION
Provides a safe, daily pick up and drop off.
HEALTH
Comprehensive services include education, screenings and follow-up for health, development, and behavior; health and safety, social and emotional health, nutrition, family goal-setting, social services, transition services and services for children with disabilities. Community Collaborations exist to ensure the continuation of optimal services throughout a child’s experience at Head Start and onward to elementary school.
SCREENINGS & EXAMS
Head Start offers the following screenings & health exams:
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Vision Screening
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Hearing Screening
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Heights & Weights
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Motor Skills Screenings (upon request)
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Physical exam
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Dental exam
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Immunization update
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Behavioral & Mental Health
NUTRITION & LUNCH SERVICES
Head Start provides healthy meals that are approved by the USDA and the Academy of Dietetics and Nutrition. Weekly fitness, oral health care and nutrition education programs are scheduled to ensure the healthy development of children and their families.
FAMILY ADVOCACY
We engage in mutually respectful goal orientated partnerships with parents or guardians to promote parent child relationships and family well being. Families are supported in using community resources that encourage family development, growth, and children’s learning and development while respecting the culture, language, values and family structure of each family served.
The Head Start staff works together in partnership with parents to:
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Guide families on how to advocate on the behalf of the their child’s education
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Assist families with building on family strengths
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Promote family development
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Support families in obtaining goals such as education, employment, social services, and becoming self-sufficient.
SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
The Head Start program supports the mental, social, cognitive, and emotional development of each child regardless of the child's disability, or health care needs. Every child is enrolled in a classroom where students with and without learning differences learn together. Inclusive classrooms are welcoming and support the diverse academic, social, emotional, and communication needs of each individual student. Head Start staff build relationships with families that support positive parent-child relationships, family well-being and connections to the community.