Mission Statement

In order to promote success in school and community, Denise Louie Education Center provides quality, multi-cultural early childhood education services to children and their families. We will respect and preserve each child’s individuality, cultural heritage and home language. We will promote personal and social responsibility with integrity and love in a non-sexist, non-violent, and non-racist environment.

Values

• To support the overall goal of improving social competence, Early Head Start and Head Start embraces a core set of values, including commitments to:
• Establish a supportive learning environment for children, parents, and staff, in which the processes of enhancing awareness, refining skills, and increasing understanding are valued and promoted.
• Recognize that the members of the Head Start community – children, families, and staff – have roots in many cultures. Head Start families and staff, working together as a team, can effectively promote respectful, sensitive, and proactive approaches to diversity issues.
• Understand that shared governance is an empowering process when the ideas and opinions of families, governing bodies, and staff are heard and respected.
• Embrace a comprehensive vision of health for children, families, and staff, which assure that basic health needs are met, encourages practices that prevent future illnesses and injuries, and promotes positive, culturally relevant health behaviors that enhance life-long well-being.
• Respect the importance of all aspects of an individual’s development, including social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth.
• Build a community in which each child and adult is treated as an individual while, at the same time, a sense of belonging to the group is reinforced.
• Foster relationships with the larger community, so that families and staff are respected and served by a network of community agencies in partnership with one another.
• Develop a continuum of care, education, and services that allow stable, uninterrupted support to families and children during and after their Head Start experience.

Adopted October 2002