New Directions Early Head Start
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 a traditional home-based visit, providing the child and family with additional support and focusing on the parent as the child’s most important teacher. These visits occur in the home and at the child care 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 will fund Hilltop for a family advocate to provide all the family support components of EHS. In collaboration with classroom staff, the family advocate provides home visits. Home visits are based on a traditional home-based visit, offering the child and family with additional supports and focusing on the parent as the child’s most important teacher. These visits occur in the home and at the child care center.
All centers operate five days a week, year-round providing full-day care in conjunction with Purchase of Care dollars.
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 will provide the family support component, placing family support staff at the site. In collaboration with classroom staff, the family advocate will provide at least nine “home visits” per year. Home visits are based on a traditional home-based visit, providing the child and family with additional support and focusing on the parent as the child’s 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 dollars.