About this PreSchool

Alvin Head provides a Head Start program that supports your child's full development while providing school readiness. As well as:

• Develop safe and healthy habits in young children with an emphasis on proper hygiene, sound nutrition, exercise and physical care.


• Foster positive self-esteem by providing an environment of acceptance that supports and respects gender, culture, language, ethnicity and family composition.


• Provide opportunities for creative expression.


• Support the development of social skills such as sharing, cooperation, generosity and empathy.


• Stimulate cognitive problem-solving skills with an emphasis on the concepts of cause and effect, classification, space, time, numbers, shape and colors.


• Strengthen communication skills necessary for listening, reading, writing and speaking by providing an environment rich in the practical uses of words.


• Enhance fine motor and gross motor skills.

• Head Start child must be aged 3 to 5 before September 1.


• Early Head Start child must be newborn to age 3. Teen parents are first priority, though all parents are welcome to apply.


• Pregnant women may apply. Pregnant teens are first priority, all pregnant women welcome to apply.


• Foster children and families with TANF automatically meet income requirements.


• Family must meet the following income guidelines (2010 guidelines are the same as 2009) - 2009 Family Income Guidelines