Because children must be healthy and well nourished in order to learn, Head Start pays particular attention to health. Head Start ensures that all enrolled children have timely immunizations and screenings for cognitive development, basic health, mental health, speech and language, hearing, vision, nutrition, and dental health. Once screenings have been completed for each child, Head Start works with the family to ensure follow-up services are received for any identified needs.

Mental Health

Head Start builds collaborative relationships among children, families, staff, mental health professionals, and the community in order to enhance awareness and understanding of mental wellness and the contribution that mental health information and services can make to increase the resilient capacity of all children and families.

Nutrition Services

Nutritional health enhances our ability to learn. For the young child, it means enriching their quality of life and enhancing their potential contributions to society. The ultimate goals of nutrition services is to achieve this through nutritional assessment and counseling, nutrition education to the entire family, provision of nutritious meals, empowering and educating parents so they can make healthy choices for themselves and their children. Nutritional assessment and counseling services are offered to Head Start families under the direction and care of our Head Start Nutrition Coordinator, Susan Jaffe, who is a Registered Dietician. Assessment and nutrition counseling services are offered to parents of any child at nutritional risk. This includes children who require any therapeutic diet, or are underweight, overweight or anemic.