Program Options

 

The TCOC Head Start Program provides a variety of programming options to meet the needs of our families. Description of program options are:

 

Center-Based:

Part-Day/Part-Year (PD/PY CB):

· 3 1/2 hours/day; four days/week (Monday-Thursday), school year (September-May)

 

Extended-Day/Part-Year (ED/PY CB):

· 7-8 hours/day; four or five days/week (Monday-Thursday or Monday-Friday); school year (September-May)

 

Full-Day/Full-Year (FD/FY CB):

· 11 hours/day (center open 6:30 a.m.—5:30 p.m.), five days/week (Monday-Friday); 12 months/year. Open to families working or in school on a full-time basis.

 

Child Care Collaborations (CC Coll.):

The TCOC Head Start Program has formal partnership agreements with three community child care centers to provide full-day/full-year services. Child Care Partners are:

· Sterling/Rock Falls Child Care Center, Sterling, Illinois

· Open Sesame Child Care Center, Dixon, Illinois

· Kid’s Place (Youth Service Bureau) Child Care Center, LaSalle, Illinois

 

Home Based (HB):

The TCOC Head Start Program provides four areas of home based services. In home base, the Home Visitor (teacher) makes a weekly home visit (1 1/2 hours). To each enrolled child’s home. Parents are actively involved in each home visit. Children and their families enrolled in the home based option also attend two group socialization activities each month.

 

Counties/Communities Served:

Bureau County                                       

· Spring Valley (ED/PY CB; HB)          

· Depue

· Ladd

· Dalzell

 

Carroll County

· Savanna (ED/PY CB; PD/PY CB)

· Thomson

            

LaSalle County

· Mendota (PD/PY CB)

· Earlville (PD/PY CB)

· Leland

· LaSalle (PD/PY CB; ED/PY CB; CC Coll.; HB)

· Peru

· Ottawa (PD/PY CB; FD/FY CB)

· Seneca (ED/PY CB)

· Marseilles

· Streator (PD/PY CB; ED/PY CB)

 

Lee County

· Dixon (PD/PY CB; CC Coll.; HB)

 

Marshall County

· Lacon (ED/PY CB)

· Henry

· Sparland     

 

Ogle County

· Polo (PD/PY CB)

· Oregon (ED/PY CB)

· Mt. Morris

· Rochelle (PD/PY CB; ED/PY CB)

 

Putnam County

· Granville (PD/PY CB)

· (Rest of County)

 

Stark County

· Wyoming (ED/PY CB)

 

Whiteside County

· Sterling (PD/PY CB; ED/PY CB; CC Coll.)

· Rock Falls

· Morrison (PD/PY CB)      

 

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