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The mission of Early Head Start is to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of very young children, and promote health family functioning.
What is Early Head Start?
Early Head Start is a unique program embedded in regular Head Start that provides comprehensive services to low-income expectant parents and families with infants and toddlers.  Early Head Start was started in 1994 by the US Congress.  Funding is available to localities as part of a competitive federal grant program and in 2001 Caddo Community Action Agency was awarded an Early Head Start grant.

Who Qualifies for Early Head Start?
CCAA Early Head Start is funded to serve 60 children, birth to three years old and their families to include 10 expectant women.  Eligibility requirements include: residence within the service are (the Highland/Stoner Hill area), meeting federal income guidelines and ability to transport children to the Early Head Start Location - Arc of Caddo-Bossier's Goldman School,  351 Jordan St., Shreveport LA.

Early Head Start Goals
Child Development: to prepare young children to be life-long learners by providing early childhood developmental experiences in safe and educationally sound, language-rich environments that promote each child's physical, cognitive and social and emotional growth.

Family Development:  to provide support (e.g. parenting skills, training in child development, and self-sufficiency assistance) to all members of EHS families in order to promote individual development and healthy family functioning.

Professional Development:  to promote ongoing staff development and continuous quality improvement, based on the principles of sound child development, and relationship-based, responsive care-giving.

Community Development:  to continue to partner with community programs in order to build comprehensive, integrated, culturally sensitive services for families of young children.
 
Application Information  
Applications are taken year-round, and a waiting list is maintained should openings arise during the year.  Applications are accepted from expectant mothers
and from parents of young infants and toddlers in the Highland/Stoner Hill area.   Early Head Start applications are available at the Arc of Caddo-Bossier.

   NOTE: Applications are currently sought from expectant women and families with infants, birth to three, in the Highland/Stoner Hill area.

For more information about Early Head Start contact the Early Head Start Supervisor, Dr. Teresa Edgerton-Scott or any other Early Head Start staff member.

The Arc of Caddo-Bossier Children's Division
Pam Kimbrough,  Director 
351 Jordan Street  Shreveport, Louisiana  71101 

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