Metro Delta Head Start Center

Metro Delta Head Start Program provides quality services to children and families within the RESERVOIR HILL, PENN NORTH and DRUID HEIGHTS communities in West Baltimore. The program currently serves 210 children. Metro Delta operates in three sites:

Reservoir Hill (main site) – 2001 Park Avenue Eutaw Marsh burn (portable) – 1624 Eutaw Place NIMROD Center – 1701-03 Madison Avenue

We offer a variety of options to meet the needs of our families:

• Part day – This option operates 3.5 hours per day for five days per week, 42 weeks per year, either in the AM session (8:00 am – 11:30 am) or PM session (12:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
• Part day – This option operates 6 hours per day for five days per week, 42 weeks (8:30 am – 2:30 om)
• Extended-day – This option operates ten hours per day five days per week, 42 weeks per year (7:30 am – 5:30 pm). This particular option is designed especially to meet the needs of those parents / guardians that are working, attending school or enrolled in a training program.

The program provides additional services such as: nutritious meals that are prepared in the kitchen at the main site and meet the USDA requirements, educational fieldtrips, community referrals, preventive healthcare and disability services.

Metro Delta is committed to providing a comprehensive preschool program that addresses social/emotional, physical and cognitive skills in preparation for transition to public school. We provide a safe and developmentally appropriate environment that includes qualified staff. Metro Delta also collaborates with Martin Luther King, Jr., Early Head Start Program (serving infants and toddlers) and Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School (providing part-day children with a full-day of educational services).

Metro Delta Head Start Center has developed many partnerships within the community that contribute to the effectiveness of the program. Some of the partnerships that have been established in the community are: John Eager Howard Elementary School, Westside Elementary, Mount Royal Elementary, William Pinderhughes Elementary, Eutaw Marshburn Elementary, Baltimore City Health Department, Maryland Society for Sight, TICKLE Program, DRU Healthy Families, Druid Heights Community Development, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Family and Children Services of Central Maryland Foster Grandparent Program, Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, Strive, Payne Memorial Outreach Center, STAR, and the Judy Center.

The program will continue to support parents in addressing their own needs through the centers network of Parent Support Groups and Support Services. The center sponsors its own parent workshops, parent training, Community Fair and staff training with the support of the Board of Directors (Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.).

Metro Delta Head Start strives to be in the forefront with providing job preparations, work experience and job opportunities through partnering agencies. We provide community services and internships for parents, students and community residents. The program is committed to hiring qualified parents to fill vacant positions.

Metro Delta publishes an annual Family Program Guide, Community Resource Guide and a Monthly Newsletter to keep parents and the community informed and in touch.

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Child Ages:

3 years - 5 years

Licenses & Accreditations:

Maryland State Department of Education Division of Early Childhood Development

Hours of Operation:

Monday to Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm