What do you dream about? A better education? A better job? A better place to live? A better life for your children?

Whatever it is, Head Start’s unique family goal planning services can help. We work with you one-on-one, in a partnership that taps all the resources of government and private agencies to get you where you dream of being. There’s a lot available, and we can help you find it.

To learn more, call your Family Worker. If you’re just exploring Head Start, be sure to ask about family goal planning when you first apply for your child. We provide the very best pre-school educational services in the five counties we serve, and our work with families is just as good.

                Adult Education

                 Job Counseling

                 Job Training

                 Job Search

                 Marriage enrichment

                 Parenting

                 Fathering

                 Counseling

                 Child Support

                 Food

                 Shelter

                 Clothing

                 Utility Payments

                 Medical Services

                 Home Safety

                 Car Seats

Classroom Volunteers

Parents are always welcome in the classroom where they can work directly with their child or other children, usually on a one-on-one basis. A typical activity is reading with children, but many parents also share their unique talents and gifts. Fathers are especially welcomed because of the unique contributions they make to the lives of children.

Parent Meetings

Parents at each Center conduct regular parent meetings that focus on the children’s educational progress and feature topics of interest to families. Typical topics include the full range of services that Head Start and its community partners provide:

Parents and other community representatives are an important part of Head Start’s operation. More than half the members of the Policy Council are elected by the parents at each Center, while other members serve from the community at large. As a group, the Council is responsible for approving personnel decisions, program plans as well as program improvements.

Helping You Get Your Child Ready ... For Head Start, for Kindergarten, and Beyond  

The educational services we provide are the best available in the five-county area we serve. To prepare your child for our program, we work closely with you to make sure your child “starts out right.” Our teachers will even visit your child in your home before opening day in order to smooth the transition into Head Start

Once your child gets to Head Start, they will develop a broad range of “academic” skills, like math, literacy, and science, but we also build each child’s physical development, and we nurture each child’s social and emotional skills. When a typical Head Start child begins kindergarten, they are ready to read, but they can also play hard — and they’ve learned to work with other children because they have developed confidence in themselves.

When kindergarten time comes, we provide you with registration dates, and we make sure you have the information you will need to get your child enrolled. At your request, we can share information about your child’s work in Head Start with their new school. We can even help you track your child’s progress as he moves upwards into the elementary grades