Huron Potawatomi Head Start
Preschool in Grand Rapids, MI 49504
850 Chatham. N.w
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
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Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational health nutritional social and other services to enrolled children and families.
Program Description:
The Head Start program provides grants to local public and private non-profit and for-profit agencies to provide comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families with a special focus on helping preschoolers develop the early reading and math skills they need to be successful in school. In FY 1995 the Early Head Start program was established to serve children from birth to three years of age in recognition of the mounting evidence that the earliest years matter a great deal to children’s growth and development.
Head Start programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational health nutritional social and other services to enrolled children and families. They engage parents in their children’s learning and help them in making progress toward their educational literacy and employment goals. Significant emphasis is placed on the involvement of parents in the administration of local Head Start programs.
- Child Ages:
- 3 weeks - 5 years
- Special Needs:
- Please contact us for more information
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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Head Starts commitment to wellness embraces a comprehensive vision of health for children families and staff. The objective of Child Health and Development Services is to ensure that through collaboration among families staff and health professionals all child health and developmental concerns are identified and children and families are linked to an ongoing source of continuous accessible care to meet their basic health needs.
The objective of Education and Early Childhood Development is to provide all children with a safe nurturing engaging enjoyable and secure learning environment in order to help them gain the awareness skills and confidence necessary to succeed in their present environment and to deal with later responsibilities in school and in life. Each child is treated as an individual in an inclusive community that values respects and responds to diversity. The varied experiences provided by the program support the continuum of childrens growth and development which includes the physical social emotional and cognitive development of each child.
