• Creating an environment where the child can achieve his/her potential for optimal social, intellectual, emotional, and physical growth and development
  • Providing an environment where each child is seen as a unique individual who continues to be shaped by his/her social and cultural environment
  • Encouraging each child to be the active partner in the learning process
  • Creating a curriculum based on the child’s individual needs and interests with a balance of child initiated and teacher-directed activities
The classroom model is designed to address the needs of the children, their families, and the local community and to establish resources essential to the maintenance of Head Start.
The purpose of this model is to provide a comprehensive early childhood program, which facilitates the maximum development of the children by:
Head Start Classroom Model
  • Kids Central has increased the number of degreed staff
  • Kids Central has increased Public Awareness and Accountability throughout our service area.
  • Kids Central has taken giant steps to offer more quality services to children with disabilities
  • Kids Central provides more direct support to our children and families
  • Kids Central has improved center outdoor environments as well as classroom environments.
  • Kids Central has streamlined the application process and has made it easier to enroll in Early Head Start and Head Start services
Our program options offer families a diverse array of care-including centers and home base services, centers in public schools and community facilities and centers in KCI owned and managed facilities.


Kids Central is a collaborative partner with Wise County Schools, Norton City Schools, and Dickenson County Schools.

Kids Central has been working hard to ensure a more even quality of services among all our totally Head Start-Grantee managed centers and our Community Partners:
 

  • Centers will operate for six (6) hours per day
  • Centers will operate from September through May with closing dates scheduled for holidays and staff training
Head Start Part Day/Part Year Center Based Services
  • Centers will operate from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Monday – Friday
  • Centers will operate year round with scheduled closings for holidays and staff training
  • Parents must be either working or attending school
Early Head Start and Head Start Full Day/Full Year Center Based Services
  • 90 minute home visit once a week
  • Curriculum materials provided to parent for implementation with child
  • Supplies provided for child to do curriculum work and to be creative and expressive
  • Two socialization events per month will be planned and conducted
  • Strengths & Needs and Family Goal Plans are promoted
Early Head Start and Head Start Traditional Home-based Services
Program Options

 

  • Early literacy and reading
  • Math and numbers
  • Physical and motor skills
  • Relationship skills
  • Language and speech
  • and much more

In order for each child to develop socially, intellectually and emotionally according to his/her individual requirements, Head Start classrooms highlight diverse activities: passive and active, individual and group-related, child and teacher initiated. Integrating learning with what appears to be simple play focuses children's attention on productive actions that teach perseverance and self-discipline, strengthen motor skills, fine-tune manipulative operations and enhance decision-making and problem-solving skills.
In the early years a mind grows by leaps and bounds. It's a time of new discoveries that set the course for a lifelong learning process. Head Start realizes this and takes its role of developing these young minds very seriously.

We work on:
 

Education Services

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