Every child should be well prepared for school. Yet, children born into low-income families and high-needs neighborhoods often lag behind their higher-income peers because their environments have fewer resources. In the first few years – when intellectual, emotional and social development progress most rapidly – this disadvantage grows. Rising Ground’s Bronx-based Early Head Start program gives children and their families the resources, knowledge, and skills to close that gap and build a solid foundation for a successful future.
The path to success begins at birth so we support pregnant women with prenatal education to ensure they have access to all the medical and other services they need to give birth to a healthy baby. Then our bilingual Early Head Start program provides critical early childhood services to children from birth to 3 years old when their physical, educational and social-emotional development start. We support children in Family Child Care settings as well as providing home-based visiting services depending upon the needs of each family.
At each of our Family Child Care sites, up to four children explore a wide array of enriching social and educational activities as well as eat nutritious meals and snacks. Home visiting services focus on supporting parents as they learn to guide healthy child development and foster pre-literacy skills as well as nurture the parent-child relationship.
Children in both programs receive hearing, vision and dental screenings and families are provided with referrals to free/low-cost health clinics, food banks, referrals to job training, assistance with housing, access to health and mental health services, educational supports. and other social services as needed.
This website is supported by Grant Numbers 02CH013047-01-00, O2CH012748, and 02CH012755 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 Rising Ground and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Head Start.