Home Base
Our Home Base option serves children birth -3 year old and pregnant women in Choctaw County. The program offers parents the opportunity to be their child’s first teacher. A home visitor travels to the home each week for 11/2 hours to demonstrate age appropriate activities for parents to do with the child. Home visitor also observes parent-child interaction and offers suggestions to any family concerns. We provide activities from a national curriculum, Parents as Teachers. All activities enhance a child’s abilities through play. We also document individual progress using a web-based curriculum, Creative Curriculum. Our Home Base program allows families the option to be placed as priority into the Early Head Start center as openings occur. With this option in mind, the home visitor helps parents to keep child school-ready with immunizations, physicals and any developmental concerns. Home visitors and families participate in the transition process into Head Start as a child reaches the age of three. Along with home visits, Home Base offers families a chance to get to know one another by offering a gathering twice a month. At these socializations, we serve dinner and work on participating child’s developmental progress goals. We always welcome applications and look forward to serving many clients in our area.
creativecurriculum.net/parentsCentral/
www.parentsasteachers.org/
Family Advocates
The Family Advocates work with Head Start and Early Head Start parents to help identify their family strengths and needs. They supply parents with information on issues relating to child development, parenting, health, nutrition, adult education and financing sources, besides helping them find resources and services in the community that would strengthen their family’s well-being. Family Advocates help parents learn what their parent rights are and how to advocate for their children. When a parent cannot come to the center for a meeting, it is sometimes necessary for the Family Advocate to make a Home Visit with the parent to complete assessments and goal setting agreements, however these Home Visits are not inspections and only take a few minutes to complete.
List of Community Partners
Little Dixie Head Start and Early Head Start have partnership agreements with other agencies in the community that provide services and resources to Head Start/Early Head Start families. Among the Community Partners are:
Department of Human Services - www.okdhs.org
County Health Departments - www.ok.gov/health/
Educational Opportunity Center - www.se.edu/eoc
Kiamichi Technology Center - www.okktc.org/Template0.asp?pg=126
www.okktc.org/Template0.asp?pg=127
LDCAA Transit
OSU Co-op Extension Center - www.dasnr.okstate.edu/
Public Schools in the LDCAA Head Start area
SoonerStart - www.sde.state.ok.us/Curriculum/SpecEd/SoonerStart.html
SOS for Families
Youth Services
Area medical and dental providers
Parent Involvement, Volunteering
From the beginning of Head Start, parents have played an important part in the success of the program by volunteering their time and talents in the classrooms and on field trips. Parent volunteers help by reading to the students, assisting with arts and crafts, assembling activity packs, washing sheets, or helping in the classroom during illness of teaching staff.
Parent meetings
The parents of Little Dixie Head Start and Early Head Start students are automatically members of their child’s Center parent committee, which meets once a month to receive training on child development and parenting topics, and to discuss current issues related to that center; such as curriculum, fundraising activities and field trips. From the parent committee, the members vote on a representative to Policy Council, which is like a school board, and that member takes part in voting on decisions for the management of the program and brings back all information to their center Parent Committee members.
Links to Parenting websites:
dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/families/parenting
www.babybumblebee.com
www.parenting.org
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/parenting.html
www.parenting.nsw.gov.au
Family Service Assessment
During enrollment, each parent completes a standard Family Service Assessment, answering questions which identify the strengths and needs of the family.
Family Partnership Goals
The parent is encouraged to agree to work on a goal that will improve the family’s quality of life, or help the Head Start child accomplish a skill and strengthen the bond between parent and child.
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