Family Services
Workshops and Activities:
Read With Ms. Sharon
Did you know CACS Head Start has a YouTube channel? Parents can read along with Ms. Sharon each week.
Ready! For Kindergarten
This curriculum is focused on skills that a child needs before they start kindergarten. This workshop is available for any child from birth to 5-years-old. After class, parents will receive a bag of materials to use as they work with their children on language and literacy, math, and social/emotional skills. The activities encourage movement, play, exploration, and communication.
Proud Fathers Workshop
A workshop to support all male role models! This interactive online class strengthens relationships between kids and male role models in their lives.
Sweet Dreamzzz
Getting enough sleep is very important for young children. Do you know how much sleep your child needs? Do you need ideas on how to get your child to sleep at night? This workshop teaches about how important sleep is and tips for a peaceful bedtime.
Love and Logic Workshop
The Love and Logic approach to parenting is built around crafting caring and respectful relationships. A loving connection between parents and their children is the root of a healthy, thriving relationship built on trust and understanding. Parents have been faced with so many challenges! This program provides a variety of simple and effective strategies to use with children from birth to adulthood. The program shares strategies and techniques that will help you create calm and loving solutions.
Through this program, you will learn techniques that:
• Teach responsibility and character
• Lower your stress level
• Have immediate and positive effects
Support to achieve parent goals:
- GED or High School Completion
- Workshops for parents including Literacy, Effective Discipline, Money Management, Reflections, Budgeting, and Very Important Male workshop
- Monthly workshops presented in Spanish
- Connections to community workshops
Early Intervention Specialists:
- The Early Intervention Department supports staff, children, and parents by providing services, early identification, and referrals to school districts and other community agencies. In partnership with other program staff, they help build knowledge and skills through training and workshops.
- Observe children in classrooms to identify who may need additional support
- Communicate with staff and parents so everyone can work together in the child’s best interest.
- Partner with school districts and community agencies to further evaluations and services.
- Educate on child development, family development and mental health topics.
- Promote wellness for all through program-wide goals of “Be safe, be kind, be healthy”.
- Children will not be excluded based on a disability or need for toileting assistance.
family Advocates
Every family in Head Start’s center-based programs works with a Family Advocate. Family Advocates build relationship with the families to create partnership. Family Advocates also work very closely with other Head Start staff including classroom staff, ERSEA, Health team, Disability Coordinators, etc., to ensure children and families are supported per their needs. Family Advocates work with the families to identify strengths and needs, and create goals following the Parent Family Community Engagement framework. Family Advocates also connect or refer families to appropriate community services and resources.