Easter Seals Head Start Centers serves 488 young children in Miami

Easter Seals South Florida has been educating 488 young children in six Head Start programs (480 Head Start slots and 8 Early Head Start slots).  The staff at Easter Seals continues to provide comprehensive early childhood care, case management and education sevices for pregnant women, infants, toddlers and pre-school age children.

Easter Seals Head Start sites in Miami and Miami Gardens will include: Caleb Center, Jackson Dade, Culmer, Liberty Square, North County, and Ophelia E. Brown-Lawson.

The Easter Seals mission to provide exceptional services so that children and adults with special needs can live, learn, work and play in our community aligns well with Head Start.  head Start is not "new" to Easter Seals.  Easter Seals affilitates in 11 other markets nationwide provide Head Start and/or Early Head Start programs at 50 different program sites.

Easter Seals South Florida has been providing high quality, culturally competent early childhood education in Miami for more than 70 years.  Easter Seals experience in autism, disabilities services, and behavior management will provide added value and innovation tot he traditional Head Start service model.

Honoring its commitment to assure continuity of services, Easter Seals has hired 72 displaced County employees to date -- 85% of a 79 position Head Start work force.  Easter Seals President/CEO Luanne Welch said, "We are grateful for the opportunity to serve our assigned neighborhoods, and I am very proud of our Head Start Team.  Our program leadership, clinical, education and support staff are passionate and devoted to the children and families in our Head Start community.  We believe in Head Start and are happy to work with Miami Dade County to achieve quality and school readiness in safe and welcoming environments where children can learn through play."

For more information on Head Start, please call (786) 469-4622.

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