Welcome to Indiana County Head Start !
Indiana County Head Start provides a FREE pre-school that offers breakfast, lunch and snack, busing, health and social services to eligible families with children from ages pregnancy to age 5 throughout Indiana County Pennsylvania.
Have SNAP? You are automatically eligible for our services!
About Us
Indiana County Head Start’s program is a free early childhood education initiative that receives federal and state funding. This program is aimed at improving the school readiness of children aged 3 to 5 (Early Head Start is available from pre-natal to age 3) who are eligible by providing family involvement, health and nutrition services, education, and social services. Our program is designed to enhance the children's cognitive development, social-emotional development and literacy, as well as promoting their overall health and well-being. On-site screenings for vision, hearing, and lead are available, and children are provided with daily nutritious meals and snacks. Medical, dental, immunization, and mental health referral services are also available as needed. Indiana County Head Start’s program has classrooms located within Cherryhill, Homer City, and Indiana.
Mission
Indiana County Head Start, Inc. strives to provide a supportive and nurturing environment in which children and their families feel valued and heard while being connected with the services and education necessary to become empowered self-sufficient members of the community.
Vision
The vision of Indiana County Head Start, Inc. is to continuously evolve to meet the educational, emotional and life skill needs of the children and families in which we serve.
Services
Education: Provides a variety of developmentally appropriate learning experiences to foster intellectual, social and emotional growth through center-based option.
Transition: Provides children and parents with information and educational opportunities to prepare them for entrance into the public school system.
Disabilities Services: Ensures that children with disabilities receive the full range of developmental services in an inclusive environment.
Health/Nutrition: Emphasizes the importance of early identification and treatment of health problems and comprehensive health care.
Mental Health: Recognizes the importance of providing mental health and psychological services to children and parents to encourage emotional and social development.
Parent Involvement: Recognizes parents as the primary educator of their child and the most important influence in their child’s lives, parental involvement is encouraged at all levels.
Social Services: Provides a wide range of education and training opportunities and referral and support services to meet identified family needs.