Linden Lutheran Church CDC Head Start

Quality — Building upon the Performance Standards as a foundation Head Start strives to consistently provide the highest level of service to children and families. Head Start leadership seeks to create a dynamic and cohesive environment that fosters commitment and supports continuous improvement. Inclusion — Building a community where each child and adult is treated as an individual while at the same time a sense of belonging to the group is reinforced including community values respect and responsive to diversity — in culture ethnicity language and ability. Empowerment — Believing that people can identify their own needs and interests and are capable of finding solutions and making changes. Learning — Creating an environment for children parents and staff that is culturally sensitive and where enhancing awareness and refining skills and understanding is valued and promoted. Nurture — supporting the physical social emotional and cognitive development of each child in the context of the child’s family and culture. Diversity — Recognizing that all 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 pro-active approaches to diversity issues within their programs.