Early Head Start

Early Head Start is a federally funded community-based program for low income pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers aged 0 to 3 years.

 

Early Head Start encourages the healthy development of infants and toddlers by:

  • Providing quality, multi-cultural early education services
  • Parent education and parent-child activities
  • Comprehensive health and mental health services

 

Early Head Start Goals are:

  • To partner with parents to enhance their children’s physical, social, emotional and educational development
  • Assist pregnant women in accessing comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care
  • Supporting parents in building positive, care-giving relationships with their children while honoring each families home culture, language and self-identified needs
  • Strengthening families confidence in their ability to advocate for equal access to community resources, jobs, schools and services
  • Welcoming and fully including children with disabilities and facilitating early intervention services for children will special needs.

 

Our Home-Based model:

  • Services are provided by home visitors that meet with families once a week for 90 minutes in their home to provide quality child educational activities, parenting education, physical and mental wellness services and family support services.
  • Families also attend bi-monthly socialization events where they participate in educational activities that support their goals for their children and have the opportunity to positively interact with others parents and their children.
  • Prenatal home visiting services are also available for income-eligible pregnant women and their families

 

Services include:

  • Prenatal and child development education
  • Birthing plans
  • Providing information about community resources and assisting with referrals
  • After delivery, the newborn is eligible for continued enrollment into the Early Head Start program.

 

For information about our program in other languages, we have flyers available in: English, Spanish, Somali, Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai.