Education

Education & Early Childhood Development

EHS programs are designed to nurture healthy attachments between child and caregiver (and parent and child). Programs provide intensive comprehensive child development and family support services to infants and toddlers and their families, and to pregnant women and their families.

Early Head Start programs provide similar services as preschool Head Start programs, but they are tailored for the unique needs of infants and toddlers. Early Head Start programs promote the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers through safe and developmentally enriching caregiving. This prepares these children for continued growth and development and eventual success in school and life.

Education and child development services are delivered in the classroom setting, which is in the Crockett Early Head Start center. Staff members also visit family homes at least twice per year. An Early Head Start class that serves children under 36 months old has two teachers with no more than eight children. Each teacher is assigned consistent, primary responsibility for no more than four children to promote continuity of care for individual children. The program minimizes teacher changes throughout a child’s enrollment, whenever possible.