W.A.C.O.G. Wellton Head Start in Wellton, AZ

Pre K Description

Head Start is a comprehensive early childhood education program for pre-school age children whose families meet current Department of Health and Human Services income eligibility guidelines.
The program offers a broad range of individualized services in the areas of education and child development, special education, health services, nutrition, parent/family development.
In addition, the range of Head Start services is responsive and appropriate to each family's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage.
Serving western Arizona for over three decades, WACOG Head Start has a long tradition of delivering high quality services designed to enhance the healthy development of children. The primary focus of WACOG Head Start is children and their families. It is the program's mission to provide the foundation for the development of self-sufficient, healthy, caring and productive children and families. It is Head Start's role to ensure the provision of opportunities of parents to become active participants in their children's growth and development. Children's 'social competence' is an overall goal of the program and is defined as a child's everyday effectiveness in dealing with the responsibilities that attend both school life and home life. Social competence also takes into account a child's social, emotional, cognitive and physical development, and how these aspects are interrelated.

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Accept vouchers

No

Inspection URL

http://hsapps.azdhs.gov/ls/sod/Facility.aspx?FacId=CDC3804

Special Needs

Children meeting disabilities eligibility criteria and enrolled in WACOG Head Start receive the full range of child development/educational, mental health, health, dental, nutritional, parent involvement and social services provided to all enrolled children. Head Start has a specific mandate to recruit and enroll income-eligible children and children with disabilities who are most in need of services, including children with severe disabilities. Head Start coordinates with the PEA and other groups to benefit children with disabilities and their families. Furthermore, Head Start is committed to fiscal support to assure the services needed by Head Start children with disabilities will be provided in full, either directly or by a combination of Head Start funds and other resources.

Operating hours

Monday-Thursday 8:00am - 2:00pm