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Children's Development and Community Involvement

Eastern Oregon Head Start

Our Vision:

Provision of quality services for children and families, supported by committed leadership.

Our Mission:

To partner with the family and community to support
the development of socially competent children who enter school ready to learn.

Core Values:

• Parents are the first and primary educator of their own children.
• Each family is unique, and a valuable part of the community as a whole.
• All aspects of individual development are important, including social-emotional, cognitive, and physical growth.

Program Priorities:

• Establish a safe, secure and respectful learning environment for children, families and program staff.
• Encourage personal responsibility for self-management and self-advocacy.
• Promote positive health and nutrition practices.
• Provide educational and social opportunities to enhance the personal development of children, families and staff.
• Promote cultural competency and inclusion practices.
• Foster continuing relationships with the community to increase access to services and revenue.
• Establish effective and responsive systems of supervision and management of personnel and resources.

                                                                                                             PC Approval 03/18/08

About Head Start

Head Start is 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.

The federal Head Start program provides grants to local public and private non-profit and for-profit agencies to provide 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. In Oregon, Head Start is jointly funded by the federal Office of Head Start and the Oregon Department of Education. Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten (OHSP) is available in all 36 counties in Oregon and follow federal Head Start performance standards.

Head Start programs promote 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. They engage parents in their children's learning and help them in making progress toward their educational, literacy and employment goals. Significant emphasis is placed on the involvement of parents in the administration of local Head Start programs.