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EARLY HEAD START (prenatal - 3 years old)

HEAD START (3-5 year olds)

Preschool (3-5 year olds)

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CCS Early Learning is offering high quality Preschool at both our Palmer and Chugiak Centers for children ages 3 through 5.

Palmer: 2238 S. Springer Loop, 2nd floor
Chugiak: 18530 Old Glenn Hwy

The program will be held Tuesdays through Fridays, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
$363 per month (Palmer) $390 (Chugiak), includes meals.

This program starts on September 7, 2010 and goes through May 11, 2011. A small deposit of $15.00 for an annual registration fee can be made now to hold a place for your child for the fall.
Please contact CCS Early Learning at
745-4040 for more information.

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Early Head Start

WHAT IS HEAD START

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.

Provides 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.

Includes Early Head Start to serve children from birth to three years of age in recognition of the fact that the earliest years matter a great deal to children's growth and development.

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.

Engages parents in their children's learning and help them in making progress toward their goals. Significant emphasis is placed on the involvement of parents in the administration of local Head Start programs.

Develops trusting, collaborative relationships between parents and staff to support parents as they identify and meet their own goals, nurture the development of their children in the context of their family and culture.

Early Head Start includes a set of principles to nurture healthy attachments between parent and child (and child and caregiver), emphasize a strengths-based, relationship-centered approach to services, and encompass the full range of a family’s needs from pregnancy through a child’s third birthday. They include:

- An emphasis on High Quality which recognizes the critical opportunity s to positively impact children and families in the early years and beyond.

- Positive Relationships and Continuity which honor the critical importance of early attachments on healthy development . Parents are a child’s first, and most important, relationship.

- Parent Involvement activities that offer parents a meaningful and strategic role in our program.

- Prevention and Promotion Activities that both promote healthy development and recognize and address atypical development at the earliest stage possible .Inclusion strategies that respect the unique developmental trajectories of young children in the context of a typical setting, including children with disabilities.

- Cultural competence which acknowledges the profound role that culture plays in early development. We also recognize the influence of cultural values and beliefs on both staff and families’ approaches to child development. We work within the context of home languages for all children and families.

- Comprehensiveness, Flexibility and Responsiveness of services which allow children and families to move across various program options over time, as their life situation demands.

- Transition planning respects families’ need for thought and attention paid to movements across program options and into—and out of—Early Head Start programs.

- Collaboration is central to our ability to meet the comprehensive needs of families. Strong partnerships allow us to expand services to families with infants and toddlers beyond our program and into the larger community.

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POLICY COUNCIL ROSTER

_________________, President
Aase Morin, Meadow Lakes HS, Vice President
Laurie Faubert, Wasilla HS, Treasurer; AHSA Representative
Fanetta Higley, Palmer HS; Secretary
Nicci Bostic, Wasilla HS; Correspondence Secretary
Laura Grove, Meadow Lakes HS; Board Reprasentative, Finance Committee
Marie Nelson, Chugiak HS
Heather Marks-Cheely, Chugiak HS
Francisco Campbell, Wasilla HS
Barbara Walker, Wasilla HS
Dana Vandermartin, Wasilla EHS/CB
Teresa Walton, Palmer EHS/HB
Tanya Davis, Meadow Lakes HS
Karen Backlund, Community
Alice Hershman, Community