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An educational program provided to help prepare children for transition into kindergarten. Health screenings are provided as well as 2/3 of the nutrients a child needs each day. Transportation is available at most locations.
The Early Head Start Program is specially designed to meet the unique developmental needs for infants and toddlers from birth to age 36 months. Center based locations are available in Pulaski and Alexander counties. Additionally, there is a home based option available in all counties, which offers a weekly visit from a teacher in the convenience of the family's home along with two special days a month for activities with other families.
Services
Preschools
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Provides support and education programming for children up to age and 3, as well as current and expecting parents
Programs include:
- Home visits.
- Developmental screening.
- Early childhood information and activities.
- Parents and teen parents support groups.
- Assisted resource and referral.
- Parental information and support.
- Playgroups.
- Toy and book lending library.
- Individualized family service plan.
- Parenting education classes.
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Information and Referral
Children's Play Groups
Pediatric Developmental Screening
Case/Care Management
Support Groups
Home Based Parenting Education
Child Development Classes
An educational program provided to help prepare children for transition into kindergarten. Health screenings are provided as well as 2/3 of the nutrients a child needs each day. Transportation is available at most locations.
The Early Head Start Program is specially designed to meet the unique developmental needs for infants and toddlers from birth to age 36 months. Center based locations are available in Pulaski and Alexander counties. Additionally, there is a home based option available in all counties, which offers a weekly visit from a teacher in the convenience of the family's home along with two special days a month for activities with other families.
Services
Preschools
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Federally funded programs designed to promote school readiness. School readiness is defined as children possessing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school and in life beyond school. Provides services in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Offers school readiness program and additional comprehensive services to children and their families. Additional services include:
- Health and dental care.
- Nutrition services.
- Special needs services.
- Mental health support.
- Transportation.
- Information about community resources.
Services
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Serves pregnant women, infants, and children. Services include:
- Help finding a doctor.
- Home visits.
- Medical card application.
- Application to All Kids or Family Care insurance.
- Linkage to the WIC program.
- Information on childhood immunizations schedules.
- Help understanding the stages of the child's development.
- Health education/nutrition education.
Services
Case/Care Management
Physician Referrals
Nutrition Education
Child Development Classes
Childhood Immunization
Provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to infants and toddlers and their families.
Services
Preschools
Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Head Start is a federally-funded program that serves children from birth to age five and pregnant women, offering a school readiness program in addition to comprehensive services to children and their families who meet income guidelines.
Services
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Child Development Classes
Federally funded programs designed to promote school readiness. School readiness is defined as children possessing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school and in life beyond school. Provides services in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Federally funded programs designed to promote school readiness. School readiness is defined as children possessing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school and in life beyond school. Provides services in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Federally funded programs designed to promote school readiness. School readiness is defined as children possessing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school and in life beyond school. Provides services in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Early Head Start ensures that children (0-3 years of age) and their families receive the academic, social, mental, health, and nutritional education they need. Children's needs are met with a 1 to 4 child/staff ratio.
Head Start prepares children for Kindergarten and beyond. Also meets the nutritional, health, social and mental health needs of children and their families.
Services
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Child Development Classes
Preschools
Child development program designed to work with the family to empower the parent with good parenting skills and support services. Through individualized visits in the child's home, the Family Educator will help enhance the child's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. This program also assists pregnant women to access comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care, support parents in their parental roles and helps parents move toward self-sufficiency through the home visit.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Child Development Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
- Case Management- Coordinates services with other agencies and government services. Assists with cultural orientation, form/document completion. Provides ESL classes. Advocates for Hispanic population. Provides guidance and emotional support.
- Interpretation and Translation Services - A pool of interpreters are available to provide services anywhere needed in the community.
- Latino Counseling Services - Individual, child, family, and couples general counseling. Specific counseling available in areas of codependency, grief/loss, anger management, conflict resolution, and domestic violence. Crisis intervention available. Spanish-language services available.
- Music Connection Foundation/Niños y música/Kindermusik: Developmental music program for children and parents to promote development.
- Latino Women's Support Group: Gathering of mothers and children to discuss daily issues and share a meal. Limited space.
Services
English as a Second Language
Support Groups
Language Interpretation
Child Development Classes
Outreach Programs
General Counseling Services
Provides comprehensive classroom and home-based services to pregnant women and children.
Services
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Preschools
Home Based Parenting Education
Program that offers a range of educational services to improve academic continuity and achievement for migrant children, youth, and families in Illinois. Family Literacy Services are offered to migrant families and use interactive activities to improve parenting skills, intergenerational literacy, and early childhood education.
Cobden's After School Program is also offered that assists with bilingual homework assignment help and computer access.
Services
Child Development Classes
Literacy Programs
Extended Child Care
An educational program provided to help prepare children for transition into kindergarten. Health screenings are provided as well as 2/3 of the nutrients a child needs each day. Transportation is available at most locations.
The Early Head Start Program is specially designed to meet the unique developmental needs for infants and toddlers from birth to age 36 months. Center based locations are available in Pulaski and Alexander counties. Additionally, there is a home based option available in all counties, which offers a weekly visit from a teacher in the convenience of the family's home along with two special days a month for activities with other families.
Services
Preschools
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Program that offers a range of educational services to improve academic continuity and achievement for migrant children, youth, and families in Illinois. Family Literacy Services are offered to migrant families and use interactive activities to improve parenting skills, intergenerational literacy, and early childhood education.
Cobden's After School Program is also offered that assists with bilingual homework assignment help and computer access.
Services
Child Development Classes
Literacy Programs
Extended Child Care
Federally funded programs designed to promote school readiness. School readiness is defined as children possessing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school and in life beyond school. Provides services in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Federally funded programs designed to promote school readiness. School readiness is defined as children possessing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in school and in life beyond school. Provides services in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners every step of the way.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Child development program designed to work with the family to empower the parent with good parenting skills and support services. Through individualized visits in the child's home, the Family Educator will help enhance the child's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. This program also assists pregnant women to access comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care, support parents in their parental roles and helps parents move toward self-sufficiency through the home visit.
Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Child Development Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Offers school readiness program and additional comprehensive services to children and their families. Additional services include:
- Health and dental care.
- Nutrition services.
- Special needs services.
- Mental health support.
- Transportation.
- Information about community resources.
Services
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Preschools
Multifaceted program designed to provide helpful early-childhood services and activities for expecting families and those with children up to 3 years of age.
- Bi-weekly personal visits with activities to increase child development skills, as well as offer social support.
- Parent/child groups (LAP: Learning and Playing Time).
- Regular developmental, social-emotional, health, hearing, and vision screenings.
- Parent workshops for information and support.
- Family fun activities and story hour.
- Linkage to other support agencies.
- Transition to other education programs at age 3.
- Monthly newsletter.
- Lending library.
Services
Support Groups
Parent/Child Activity Groups
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Pediatric Developmental Screening
A federally funded, comprehensive child development program which strives to promote a rich, nurturing, learning environment. Provides a range of individualized services in the areas of:
- Education & Early Childhood Development.
- Early Intervention Services.
- Medical, Dental & Mental Health.
- Nutrition.
- Parent Engagement.
In addition, the entire range of BCMW Head Start/Early Head Start services is responsive and appropriate to each child and family's developmental, ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage and experiences.
Services
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Preschools
Child Development Classes
Provides developmental, educational, and nutritional services through this federally funded child and family development program.
Services
Child Development Classes
Preschools