Early Head Start
Welcome to
Schoharie County Early Head Start
Early Head Start is a federally funded community-based program for low-income families with infants, toddlers and pregnant women. Its mission is simple:
• to promote healthy prenatal
outcomes for pregnant women,
• to enhance the development of
very young children, and
• to promote healthy family
relationships.
Early Head Start programs offer year-round services to families with pregnant women and children birth to 3 years. The services provided by Early Head Start are grounded in the Head Start Program Performance Standards and are designed to reinforce and respond to the unique strengths and needs of each child and family. Services include the following:
• Quality early education and care both in and out of
the home
• Home visits, especially for the families with newborns
and infants
• Parent education, including parent-child activities
• Comprehensive health and mental health services to
women before, during, and after pregnancy
• Nutrition· Ongoing support for parents through case
management and peer support groups
We will have 5 new classrooms:
• 1 infant room and 2 toddler rooms
in Cobleskill
• 1 infant room and 1 toddler room
in Schoharie.
North Blenheim and Sharon Springs will offer home based programs, family educators will do home visits once weekly and socializations will be held once or twice a month at these centers.
Enrollment
We are taking applications for Early Head Start pregnant women and children now. Please contact your family advocate, center director or Rhonda Wilty at Cobleskill Center if you would like to enroll your child or if you have a referral for a family with a child from birth to three years old. We are also enrolling pregnant mothers.
Call the Cobleskill Center at 234-7521 or the Schoharie
Center at 295-8155 for more information!
