Parents are taught how to create learning experiences for their children. Children attend half-day sessions and enjoy a variety of learning experiences that foster intellectual, social and emotional growth. Head Start emphasizes the importance of early identification of health problems. All children receive vision and hearing testing, and speech and language testing. The Head Start program maintains an ongoing outreach recruitment process, provides families with information on the program and support services available in the community, assists families in locating and securing needed services and serves as an advocate for low-income children and families.
Parents are the most important influence on a child s development.
An essential part of the Head Start Program is the involvement of parents in program planning and operating activities and as volunteers. Through participation in workshops and through staff visits to the home, parents learn about the needs of their children and about educational activities that can be conducted at home. Disabled children and their families receive the full range of developmental services. The program provides transportation to 600 children. Provision of transporation is based on individual family needs, distance and diagnosed disabilities.