Head Start / Early Head Start of Beaver County
Comprehensive child
development programs
Promoting healthy prenatal outcomes for
pregnant women, enhance the
development of very young children, and
healthy family relationships.
Who We Are
Head Start and Early Head Start of Beaver County are federal and state funded, comprehensive child development programs designed to serve families with children from birth to age five, including children with verified disabilities, or are determined to be homeless under the McKinney Vinto Act, or have children with verified disabilities and who have other identified “risk” factors.
Tami Ozegovich
Director of Head Start / Early Head Start of Beaver County
Kristin Folk
Assistant Director of Head Start / Early Head Start of Beaver County
Our goal
We at Head Start do our utmost to promote school readiness and enhance social and cognitive development through the provision of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other necessary services with the objective that the families and their children will be healthy, confident, and better prepared to succeed in life.
The Early Head Start program is committed to serving low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women. Our goal is to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of very young children, and healthy family relationships.
Social Services
Child Development
Information & Services in Health, Mental Wellness and Education
Nutrition
Special Needs
Annual Report
How we Serve
In our Head Start program
Classroom Option
Single Session – 5 days per week for 5 or 6 hours per day depending on location
Breakfast, lunch and snack are provided to each child at no cost to the family.
Classroom Locations
- Aliquippa – 801 21st Street Aliquippa, 15001 – Two Classrooms
- CCBC – 1 Campus Drive Monaca, 15061 – One Classroom
- Hopewell – 3000 Kane Road Aliquippa, 15001 – One Classroom
- Ambridge – 521 8th Street Ambridge, 15003 – Two Classrooms
- Freedom – 1701 8th Ave. Freedom, 15042 – One Classroom
- New Brighton HS and MS – 3202 43rd Street New Brighton, 15066 – Three Classrooms
- Riverside -315 County Club Drive Ellwood City, 16117 – One Classroom
- College Hill – 3301 6th Avenue Beaver Falls, 15010 – One Classroom
- Beaver Falls 6th – 1416 6th Avenue Beaver Falls, 15010 – Two Classrooms
- Rochester – 540 Reno Street Rochester, 15074 – One Classroom
In our Early Head Start program
Classroom Option
- Single Session – 5 days per week for 6.5 hours per day year round
- Feeding is provided for infants on demand*
- Breakfast, lunch and snack are provided to each child at no cost to the family*
Classroom Locations
- Aliquippa – 801 21st Street Aliquippa, 15001 – Two Classrooms
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Ambridge – 1000 1st St. Freedom, 15042 – Two Classrooms
- Rochester – 540 Reno Street Rochester, 15074 – One Classroom
Child-Care Option
Our Early Head Start program receives funds from the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center, Inc. (COTRAIC) to partner with child care centers in the community to provide center-based Early Head Start classroom services. The children are enrolled in the childcare center and receives full day/full year services and Early Head Start staff ensures that children are receiving quality care at no cost to the family.
Our current Child Care Partners are
- Noah’s Ark
- Rhyming Thyme Daycare
- Haynes Daycare Center
- Precious Tots
Who We Serve
Head Start serves families with preschool age children 3 to 5 years.
Early Head Start Home-Based serves families of infants, and toddlers under 3 years of age.
Children in childcare can also receive Head Start/Early Head Start services.
Early Head Start Child Care Option serves infants and toddlers 6 weeks to 3 years of age.
Children with disabilities or other special needs are also provided services in collaboration with the local Early Intervention provider or other programs through an IEP, IFSP, or 504 plan.
Who We Serve
- Highly qualified teachers and staff.
- A program tailored to each child’s individual needs based upon parent and staff input.
- Books and language tools to develop early reading skills.
- Opportunities and environments to develop and support strong self-image.
- Positive environment, positive behavioral changes, and social and emotional interactions.
- Good, nutritional food choices and an example of healthy eating and living.
- Instruction for parents on nutrition, health, child development, and mental health.
- Opportunities for parents and children to have social interaction with others.
- Tools for parents to learn to become their children’s first teacher.
- A school readiness plan that provides information that is needed to ensure children are ready for school, their families are ready to support their children’s learning, and schools are ready for children.