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Offers comprehensive early childhood programs for preschool children and their families; includes support services and health screenings.
State-funded preschool program provides comprehensive early childhood programs for low income preschool children and their families.
Offers health, vision, hearing and developmental screenings, family support services, preschool classroom experiences, snacks and hot meals.
Program is administered by the Puget Sound Educational Service District.
Offers employment and training opportunities and services available for parents whose children are enrolled.
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Public Preschools
Head Start
Offers Early Head Start, Head Start, Early ECEAP, ECEAP, and Early Head Start Home Base for pregnant mothers and newborns; as well as summer school age program and private childcare.
Offers Early Head Start, Head Start, Early ECEAP, ECEAP, and Early Head Start Home Base for pregnant mothers and newborns; as well as summer school age program and private childcare.
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Early Head Start
School Readiness Programs
Community Based Preschools
Head Start
Operates combined Head Start/ECEAP classrooms at seven sites in Kent for children ages 3-5 from low-income families. Family support services are part of the program. The Kent Valley site offers part-day classes three hours, M-Th.
Coordinates Head Start and the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) preschools, which provide education and socialization skill development activities.
Family support services are part of the program.
Provides services at six sites in Kent and Covington in Kent School District.
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Community Based Preschools
Head Start
Operates combined Head Start/ECEAP classrooms at seven sites in Kent for children ages 3-5 from low-income families. Family support services are part of the program. The Jenkins Creek site offers full-day 6.5 hour and part-day 3.5 hour classes, M-Th.
Coordinates Head Start and the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) preschools, which provide education and socialization skill development activities.
Family support services are part of the program.
Provides services at six sites in Kent and Covington in Kent School District.
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Community Based Preschools
Head Start
Offers Head Start and ECEAP preschool programs for low-income children.
Headstart preschool which serves 48 low-income children; runs May through November. An ECEAP preschool which serves low income children; runs October through May.
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Head Start
School Readiness Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Preschool program for low-income families. Daily lesson plans include activities for kindergarten readiness.
The Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) is Washington's comprehensive pre-kindergarten program serving at-risk three and four year old children and their families. ECEAP provides children with preschool education, health services, intensive family support, and parent engagement and training.
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Head Start
Community Based Preschools
School Readiness Programs
Operates combined Head Start/ECEAP classrooms at seven sites in Kent for children ages 3-5 from low-income families. Family support services are part of the program. The Panther Lake site offers part-day three hour classes, M-Th.
Coordinates Head Start and the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) preschools, which provide education and socialization skill development activities.
Family support services are part of the program.
Provides services at six sites in Kent and Covington in Kent School District.
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Head Start
Community Based Preschools
Preschool program for low-income families. Daily lesson plans include activities for kindergarten readiness.
The Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) is Washington's comprehensive pre-kindergarten program serving at-risk three and four year old children and their families. ECEAP provides children with preschool education, health services, intensive family support, and parent engagement and training.
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Head Start
Community Based Preschools
Provides a pre-school classroom experience for 3 and 4 year old children to prepare them for Kindergarten, also provides a variety of services to children and their families.
Provides a pre-school classroom experience for 4 year old children and prepares them for Kindergarten. Provides a variety of services to children and their families, including early childhood education, health and social service referrals, health screenings, nutrition education, and monthly parent involvement events, including parent policy committee meetings, parent craft nights, father/child nights, cooking classes, and parent training.
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Head Start
Early Head Start
Community Based Preschools
Offers an early learning preschool program and an academically enriched school age program. Open year round serving ages 14 months up to age 13 years. Also an ECEAP program. See details for more information.
Offers an early learning preschool program and an academically enriched school age program.
Open year round serving ages 14 months up to age 13 years.
Additionally the Tacoma Day preschool is combined with Washington State ECEAP. The preschool program is aligned with Washington State K through 12 WA kids using: Creative Curriculum, Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment and ASQ, a parent driven developmental tool.
These tools allow teachers and parents to work together to individualize program for their child.
If a preschool child has an IEP the child can be bused to and from their Tacoma School District partial day program and combine with Tacoma Day Preschool for a full day.
School children are served by Tacoma Public Schools District 10. are transported to Bryant, Grant, Edna Travis and Impact schools
Tacoma Day actively participates in Early Achievers, the quality rating system of Washington State. Breakfast, lunch, and snack are provided at no additional cost and meet CACFP standards.
Tacoma Day, a non-profit, has been in business since 1911.
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Child Care Centers
Early Head Start
Head Start
Offers half-day and full-day preschool programs for low-income children ages 3-5. Multicultural program teaches literacy, math, and social-emotional skills.
Offers a high quality, developmentally appropriate early education at four dynamic, inclusive schools with full day and extended day options.
Multilingual teachers reinforce the languages kids speak at home as well as help them master English. Curriculum includes literacy, math, and social-emotional skills.
Arranges dental and physical screenings for all students and families participate in monthly nutrition activities.
Each child has an individualized plan developed jointly with the parent that identifies outcomes in social-emotional development, literacy, language development, mathematics, physical health, science, creative arts, and approaches to learning.
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Community Based Preschools
Head Start
Serves as a location for Child Find, a program to help identify children with disabilities.
Early Education (ECEAP) services are provided to the UP School District through Pierce County Human Services.
Child Find:
Serves as a location or contact point for families in the University Place School District.
Offers screenings throughout the school year to help identify children birth to 5 years old who may need special services in order to experience success in school.
Special services can include occupational, physical and/or speech therapies, or a specialized early childhood program.
Screenings will not show conclusively that a child has special needs, but it will indicate if he or she may need further assessment.
Early Childhood Education Assistance Program - ECEAP
Program is administered to University Place families through Pierce County Human Services
Offers free preschool to low-income families with four year old children.
Provides children with social, health, nutrition, and education services.
Contact Human Services at 253-798-4400 option 4.
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Early Head Start
Early Identification Programs
Head Start
Public Preschools
Provides early learning opportunities for children ages birth to 5. Offers Early Head Start, Head Start and ECEAP programs. Prioritizes low-income students and students with developmental delays. Breakfast or lunch is provided depending upon the time of class.
Provides early learning opportunities for children ages birth to 5. Prioritizes low-income students and students with developmental delays.
Early Head Start:
A qualified home visitor will visit home once a week for 90 minutes to share fun activities designed to advance child’s development.
Locally Designed Option:
Offers a hybrid-- in-class and home visiting for 2 year-olds.
Head Start/ECEAP
Offers center-based preschool programs with locations throughout Kitsap and Mason Counties. Students may attend full-time/part year or part-time/part-year depending on need and availability. Breakfast or lunch is provided depending upon the time of class.
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Early Head Start
School Readiness Programs
Head Start
Public Preschools
Serves as a location for Child Find, a program to help identify children with disabilities.
Early Education (ECEAP) services are provided to the Dieringer School District through Pierce County Human Services.
Child Find:
Serves as a location or contact point for families in the Dieringer School District.
Offers screenings throughout the school year to help identify children aged 34 months to 5 years old who may need special services in order to experience success in school.
Special services can include occupational, physical and/or speech therapies, or a specialized early childhood program.
Screenings will not show conclusively that a child has special needs, but it will indicate if he or she may need further assessment.
Early Childhood Education Assistance Program - ECEAP
Program is administered to Dieringer School District families through Pierce County Human Services
Offers free preschool to low-income families with four year old children.
Provides children with social, health, nutrition, and education services.
Contact Human Services at 253-798-4400 option 4.
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Early Identification Programs
Early Head Start
Head Start
Public Preschools
Free comprehensive preschool program for low income families or children with special needs and community childcare.
Child-centered, individualized curriculum focused on children's natural love of exploration and creativity. Free comprehensive preschool program for low income families or children with special needs and Community Childcare.
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Head Start
Early Head Start
Child Care Centers
Teaches children social, physical, emotional and pre academic skills to prepare them for the kindergarten experience. Meals and transportation may be provided. Free program for 3-4 year old children.
Offers several programs to help with childhood development.
Head Start/ECEAP
Teaches children social, physical, emotional and pre academic skills to prepare them for the kindergarten experience.
Meals and transportation may be provided.
Free program for 3-4 year old children.
For children under the age of 3, Early Head Start home visiting may be an option.
Developmental Preschool
Offers small classes where students with special needs receive specially designed instruction to meet their individual needs.
Offers morning and afternoon classes.
Child Find
Offers screenings throughout the school year to help identify children aged 34 months to 5 years old who may need special services in order to experience success in school.
Special services can include occupational, physical and/or speech therapies, or a specialized early childhood program.
Screenings will not show conclusively that a child has special needs, but it will indicate if he or she may need further assessment.
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Community Based Preschools
Head Start
Operates more than 30 Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start centers in Spokane County. Provides support for families, encourages parent involvement and coordinates child health care and nutrition. Home visiting available to parents of children under age 3.
Operates more than 30 Head Start/ECEAP/Early Head Start centers in Spokane County. Provides support for families, encourages parent involvement and coordinates child health care and nutrition. Head Start/ECEAP: Offers full- and partial-day preschool programs for children ages 3-pre-kindergarten. Early Head Start: Child development program provided at the center and in-home for families during pregnancy and those with infants and toddlers up to age 3.
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Early Head Start
Head Start
Public Preschools
Home Based Parenting Education
Learning Avenues Child Care Centers provides affordable childcare to all families based on their ability to pay.
Provides affordable child care to all families. Helps children develop personal self-control, independence, and the ability to make choices. Specially selected activities develop social, emotional, physical, and intellectual skills. Strongly encourages and welcomes parent involvement. Preschool, Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP), and Head Start available.
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Head Start
Child Care Centers
School Readiness Programs
Public Preschools
Preschool program for low-income families. Daily lesson plans include activities for kindergarten readiness.
The Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) is Washington's comprehensive pre-kindergarten program serving at-risk three and four year old children and their families. ECEAP provides children with preschool education, health services, intensive family support, and parent engagement and training.
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Head Start
Community Based Preschools
Offers a full-day and part-day preschool program for low-income children ages 3-5. Multicultural program teaches literacy, math, and social-emotional skills.
Offers a high quality, developmentally appropriate early education at four dynamic, inclusive schools with full day and extended day options.
Multilingual teachers reinforce the languages kids speak at home as well as help them master English. Curriculum includes literacy, math, and social-emotional skills.
Arranges dental and physical screenings for all students and families participate in monthly nutrition activities.
Each child has an individualized plan developed jointly with the parent that identifies outcomes in social-emotional development, literacy, language development, mathematics, physical health, science, creative arts, and approaches to learning.
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Community Based Preschools
Head Start
Located on Eastern Washington University’s campus: Care for children 6 weeks to 10 years old, child-centered programming to EWU Students, faculty and staff.
YMCA Child Care is a place for children to explore, learn, feel safe, cared for and celebrated. Encourage positive relationships between the children, childcare staff and parents to ensure a high-quality experience for the children.
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Head Start
Child Care Centers
A federally funded family involvement program for low-income families with young children. Head Start serves preschool children in classroom settings.
A federally funded family involvement program for low-income families with young children. Head Start serves 6 weeks old to Pre-K, in both full-day and half-day classrooms. Their Family Service Coordinators and room teachers work with families on goals in development, as well as in assisting with the rest of life that happens for the parents. This program is through Community Colleges of Spokane.
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Head Start
Community Based Preschools
Operates combined Head Start/ECEAP classrooms at seven sites in Kent for children ages 3-5 from low-income families. Family support services are part of the program.
Coordinates Head Start and the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) preschools, which provide education and socialization skill development activities.
Family support services are part of the program.
Provides services at six sites in Kent and Covington in Kent School District.
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Head Start
Community Based Preschools
Offers several programs that support children and parents during child’s early years and crucial stage of development. Works to make sure children's needs are met through education and nutrition.
Offers several programs that support children and parents during child’s early years and crucial stage of development. Works to make sure children's needs are met through education and nutrition. Carroll Children's Center: provides full time early education for children ages 1 month through 5 years of age. Offers a structured learning environment with bilingual staff and help from volunteers. Does not provide childcare after 6:30pm or on the weekends. Growing Hope Child & Family Development Center: expands services to low-income, high-risk children and infants through age 5, and their families. Includes 8 infant through preschool classrooms, including Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP), ECLIPSE therapeutic classrooms, and early learning classrooms. Child Care Nutrition Program: seeks to assure all children in licensed child care homes receive adequate and nutritional balanced USDA eligible meals. Provides reimbursement for nutritious snacks and meals served in family day care homes for children 1 month through 12 years of age.
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Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Early Head Start
Child and Adult Care Food Programs
Head Start
School Readiness Programs
Offers Head Start, Early Head Start, parenting skills education, ECAP, and parent involvement.
Offers Head Start, Early Head Start, parenting skills education, ECEAP, parent involvement, Rural Home Visiting, Perinatal Mental Health, and Imagination Library. Offers home visiting and home visits for the children in the Early Head Start and Rural Home Visiting programs. Provides infants, toddlers, preschool children, and parents with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and educational needs.
Offers the following:
- Preschool education geared to children's developmental needs
- Health, nutrition and family support services
- Literacy, leadership and employment training opportunities for parents
- Services to support homeless children and families
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Family Life Education
Early Head Start
Parenting Skills Classes
Head Start