Early Head Start

Early Head StartThe Early Head Start program is a comprehensive child and family development program serving low income families.  Services are available to infants and toddlers to age 36 months and prenatal services to pregnant women.  The EHS program will provide early, continuous and intensive child centered activities to enhance the child’s physical, intellectual, social and emotional development.   Through family support services, the program will seek to empower parents to fulfill their parental roles and move towards interdependence and self sufficiency.  Services will be provided using the Parents as Teachers-Born to Learn curriculum in a home based setting.  Each family will be assigned a Home Visitor who will provide weekly visits to the home for a minimum of 90 minutes per visit to assist parents to enhance their child’s development.

REQUEST AN EARLY HEAD START APPLICATION

Key components of the Early Head Start program include:

  • High quality services which will create a positive impact to child development and families in the early years and beyond
  • Promote healthy development and recognize and address atypical development at the earliest stage possible
  • Promote positive relationships of parents and their infants and toddlers through fostering healthy parent child relationships
  • Provide parent involvement in the strategic planning of their family’s personal goals and in the vision, services and governance of the EHS program
  • Recognize the unique developmental patterns of very young children within typical timelines
  • Respect the role that culture plays in child development and works within the context of the home language for all children and families
  • Services are comprehensive, flexible and responsive to the needs of each individual child and family
  • Provide transition planning both into and out of Early Head Start programs
  • Promote collaboration through strong partnerships which will expand services to families into the larger community

Funding for the Early Head Start program is provided through a grant from the Administration for Children and Families-Office of Head Start.

The Onslow County Partnership for Children Early Head Start program is accepting applications from all interested low income families residing in Onslow County.   To apply, please contact:

Connie Phillips
Early Head Start Director
connie.phillips@onslowkids.org
910.577.1263

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