JCCEO Head Start/Early Head Start provides comprehensive child development programs for low-income children from birth to age five, as well as support services for their families. The comprehensive services these programs offer include early education, health screenings, social and emotional health, nutrition, social services, and services for children with disabilities.

 

Here at JCCEO, we believe that parents, families, and our community engagement will always be the beginning foundation of Head Start. Parent, Family, and Community Engagement create and builds strong relationships with children, families, and their communities. Parent, family, and Community Engagement can too promote the longevity of development and learning relationships that support family well-being and ongoing learnings.

 

JCCEO Head Start/ Early Head Start staff assist our parents from their first day of initiating services of completing enrollment applications, goal setting to completing program and policy decisions. JCCEO actively collaborates with its own community organizations to creating and establishing networks of support that our families can utilize during and after Head Start.

 

Parent, Family, and Community Engagement activities are integrated across the JCCEO program foundations and program impact areas. Such creations as these result in children who and are school-ready, healthy, and ready for success. Parent and family engagement activities are grounded in founded oriented goals of families and relationships.

 

We believe that every existing parental involvement is not a primary domain of exclusively a mother in every child’s life. We have seen the notion that fathers of children from low-income and high-risk backgrounds always appear to absent themselves from child rearing is erroneous.

 

JCCEO Promotes Male Involvement and other fatherhood initiatives. In observation and display here at JCCEO, we understand that fathers have a unique and important part in the development of their children. In children’s mental map, fathers learn how to respond in the most difficult situations. That is why JCCEO believes that learning the art of self-control is the primary key to interacting with young children.

 

JCCEO Male Involvement shares these fundamental tips for all fathers:

• Ask for help when needed most in situations
• Be there, to support your children
• Build trust so there’s communication

 

LASHA PAIGE

PFCE Manager

lpaige@jcceo.org