CHILDREN SERVED DAILY
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Early Head Start provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers, children with disabilities, and their families, and pregnant women and their families. The principles of Early Head Start are designed to nurture healthy attachments between parent and child (and child and caregiver), emphasize a strengths-based, relationship-centered approach to services, and encompass the full range of a family’s needs from pregnancy through a child’s third birthday.
The Early Head Start program is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Head Start (OHS). The Children’s Coalition is the grantee for the Early Head Start Program for Ouachita Parish, which includes five centers.
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PREGNANT MOMS PROGRAM |
HOME BASED PROGRAM |
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Pregnant women are eligible to enroll in Early Head Start before the birth of their baby. Pregnant moms meet with a home visitor weekly for 60 minutes and together make a plan to prepare for the baby, including discussions on:
Once the baby is born, he or she is enrolled in the home-based program. |
The home-based program is a unique educational program that supports the parent’s role as the child’s first teacher, and is based on a partnership between the parent and the home visitor. Pregnant women are eligible to enroll in Early Head Start before the birth of their baby. The home-based program includes:
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CENTER BASED PROGRAM
Located at five Early Head Start centers in Ouachita Parish, the center-based program offers a learning environment and individualized care for infants and toddlers ages 0-3 whose parents work or are attending school or job training. Breakfast, hot lunch and a snack are provided. To see each center's performance score, click each center's photo.
PARTNER SITES
We also offer Early Head Start services in two local child care partnership centers for extended hours.
APPLICATION
Applications are accepted at any time and enrollment is year round. Applications must be completed in person at any of our locations listed above .
Click below to learn more about qualifications or to complete a pre-application.
Click below to learn more about qualifications or to complete a pre-application.
Children's Coalition Early Head start is supported in part by United Way of Northeast Louisiana donations and is a United Way agency.
VOLUNTEER WITH US
Volunteers will work together to clean, organize and tidy play spaces for our little learners. We'll be cleaning playgrounds at out 5 EHS sites for service learning hours. Anyone ages 12 and up who want to feel happy about helping is welcome! Volunteers must provide own transportation from Hall Center to assigned location. Church groups, school groups, sororities/fraternities, employee-sponsored groups, nonprofits and the like are all welcome.
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Main Office:
117 Hall Street, Monroe, LA 71201 318-323-8775 Monday-Friday: 7:45 AM- 3:15 PM |
LaKeisha Gix Cooper Early Head Start Director |
Misti Guerrero EHS Education Disabilities Coordinator |
TQuela Wofford EHS FISCAL CoordiNATOR |
Alexis Gix EHS Administrative Assistant |
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Pamela Newton home visitor 
T'Era Wright - Bursey family service advocate 
Kia Williams EHS MENTOR COACH |
Jennifer Turner EHS Family service coordinator
TBA EHS Family service coordinator 
Madison Ferrell EHS HEALTHY LIVING COORDINATOR |
Crystal Lenard EHS MENTAL Health SPECIALIST
Latonya Jones Center manager |
TBA EHS ERSEA Assistant
Sarsobu Harrell center manager |
COMPLIMENTS & COMPLAINTS
In compliance with Head Start Performance Standards and the CCNELA Board and Policy Council are required to establish and maintain a procedure for working to resolve community complaints about the program.
CCNELA promotes the philosophy that the individuals involved in a complaint should make every effort to resolve issues between themselves as the first step in any disagreement, misunderstanding or complaint.
CCNELA promotes the philosophy that the individuals involved in a complaint should make every effort to resolve issues between themselves as the first step in any disagreement, misunderstanding or complaint.
This website is supported by Grant Numbers 06HP00047904 and 06CH01150905 from the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the Children’s Coalition for Northeast Louisiana and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Head Start.
