A Brief History of Child Start, Inc.
Child Start, Inc., through the Napa Solano Head Start program has been serving children and families at risk in Napa County in low income households since 1965. Head Start serves 244 pre school children and 31 infants and toddlers and their families in Napa County. In addition to overseeing the Napa Solano Head Start grant and the 2002 Federal Head Start Bureau Fatherhood Initiative, Child Start is also the administrative agency for the First Five funded Training and Job Development for Early Childhood Careers Project and Raising A Reader. This July, Child Start began serving infants and toddlers and their families in the newly funded Early Head Start grant. Early Head Start is a partnership with the Therapeutic Child Care Center of HHS, Healthy Moms and Babies and Black Infant Health in Solano County.
View the developmental milestones in the history of Child Start Inc.
It is the goal of Child Start to develop more community based projects to expand in mission, scope, quantity and quality child development services for young children birth to age five and their families. The mission of Child Start Inc. is to provide services to families with young children in the spirit of family focus, self-worth, and shared decision making in response to community need. Child Start creates partnerships with parents and public, private and corporate entities to promote social, economic, and intellectual growth for families. The Child Start vision is to promote community change that values each child and family in their diversity and supports them with dignity, pride, and compassion.