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Programs: The early childhood unit provides comprehensive early childhood services to over 900 children and their families on an annual basis. The primary funding source is head start which supports the educational, social, and emotional development of children from age 3 to 5 with a primary focus on school readiness. All nsca centers are dual language with classroom instruction occurring on alternating days in english and spanish. In addition to education services, head start provides children and their families with health, nutrition, social, and other services that are responsive to each child and family's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. Head start also encourages the role of parents as their child's first and most important teachers by building relationships with families that support positive parent-child relationships, family well-being, and connections to peers and community. These services are provided at eight centers - five operated by nsca and three operated on a subcontract basis by our collaborative partners - grace kids academy, drueding and lighthouse. All of the centers are either enrolled or in the process of enrolling in keystone stars. Three of the centers are naeyc accredited.

education consists of basically two components (1) family center - the family center is located in mckinley elementary school on diamond and orkney streets. The center operates an after-school program. (2) after-school/family preservation - the youth and family programs' goal is to establish safe havens for the community's residents (children, youth and adults) through a continuum of after school, youth development and family support activities and services that engage children while providing support to their families and other neighborhood residents. The long-term goal of these programs is to advance community safety and improve academic, health and safety outcomes for children and their families.

the social services program provides individualized case management services for members of the community, working closely with the regional liaison social works with the goal of enhancing protective factors and reducing risk factors for families in the community. The long-term goal of the case management program is to increase community support networks and linkages available to these families. One is case management services to adults with children who are at risk. Providing services that assist the family in resolving issues that are an obstacle to their stability. Emergency food, affordable housing, and enrollment assistance in a variety of programs that help them resolve particular issues. In addition the program offers an empowerment model where the group of families learn particular skills and help each other out. Program is funded by dhs for an annual contract of $30,000. 00 ips (intensive prevention services) is a program directed at youth from 11 through 18 that have been identified as truant, delinquent, or violating curfew rules the program engages the whole family in identifying problems within the family and working out those issues with the family. In addition the program offers intensive after school program for the youth that includes educational programs, social behavior, skills enhancement, and anger management with a goal to get the youth back on track at school and home. The program is funded by dhs in the amount of $701,598. 00

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