New Directions Early Head Start
Center-Based Services
New Directions Early Head Start partners with community child care programs to provide integrated center-based services for children and families.
Through these partnerships, children receive high-quality early learning experiences while families receive individualized support, home visits, and connections to helpful community resources.
University of Delaware Early Learning Center
The Early Learning Center child care and education facility provides a research, teaching, and practicum site for faculty and students, serving NDEHS children in an integrated center-based child care partnership with NDEHS in the Newark area.
The Early Learning Center is a teaching and practicum site for faculty, students, and community providers. NDEHS provides the family support component, placing a family advocate at the site full time. In collaboration with classroom staff, the family advocate provides home visits. Home visits are based on the traditional Home Visiting model, providing individualized support for children and families while recognizing parents as their child’s first and most important teacher. These visits occur in the home and at the child care center.
Hilltop Lutheran Neighborhood Center
Hilltop Lutheran Neighborhood Center serves NDEHS children and their families in an integrated center-based child care partnership in the Hilltop neighborhood of Wilmington.
NDEHS funds a family advocate at Hilltop to provide the family support components of Early Head Start. In collaboration with classroom staff, the family advocate provides home visits. Home visits are based on the traditional Home Visiting model, providing individualized support for children and families while recognizing parents as their child’s first and most important teacher. These visits occur in the home and at the child care center. The center operates five days a week, year-round, providing full-day care in conjunction with Purchase of Care funding.
Neighborhood House Inc.
Neighborhood House Inc. serves NDEHS children and their families in an integrated center-based child care partnership model in the Southbridge section of Wilmington.
NDEHS provides the family support component, placing family support staff at the site. In collaboration with classroom staff, the family advocate provides at least nine home visits per year. Home visits are based on the traditional Home Visiting model, providing individualized support for children and families while recognizing parents as their child’s first and most important teacher. These visits occur in the home and at the child care center. The center operates five days a week, year-round, providing full-day care in conjunction with Purchase of Care funding.
