Community Action Organization
1001 SW Baseline Street
Hillsboro, OR - 97123
(503) 693-3262

Hours

• Monday 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
• Tuesday 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
• Wednesday 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
• Thursday 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
• Friday 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM
• Saturday closed
• Sunday closed

Welcome to the Community Action Organization page. Head Start Program information along with details, maps, and photos are below.

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Head Start Program Details, hours, photos, information: Community Action Organization

Head Start & Early Head Start   

Enrollment phone:

503.693.3262

Head Start and Early Head Start programs promote the school readiness of children from birth to age five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social and emotional development.

Head Start began in 1965 as a summer program for low-income children.

Today Head Start and Early Head Start programs serve almost a million children nationwide.

Community Action Head Start and Early Head Start programs offer high-quality early childhood education to families with children between six weeks to five years of age, who live in their Washington County service area, and whose family income is within 130 percent of the current federal poverty guidelines.

(Families with income less than 100 percent of the federal poverty level are prioritized.)

In addition to education, Head Start and Early Head Start programs provide comprehensive services to enrolled children and their families.

These include health, nutrition, social and other services determined to be necessary by family needs assessments.

They welcome children with special needs and children who are learning English.

Head Start services are designed to be responsive to each child and family's ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage.

Program OptionsPart-Day Pre-K Head StartIn this program option, children ages three to five attend class for three and a half hours per day, four days per week, in classrooms located in public schools in the Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard-Tualatin and Sherwood school districts and in our Hillsboro and Beaverton Child Development Centers.

This high quality preschool program prepares children to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.

Children eat nutritious, balanced meals and snacks every day.

Teachers conduct two home visits and two Parent-Teacher Conferences throughout the year.

Bus transportation is provided at some sites.

Full-Day Full-Year Head Start and Early Head StartThis program option provides full-day Head Start or Early Head Start services to children from infancy to age five whose parents are working and are eligible for Employment Related Day Care (ERDC) funds from the State of Oregon.

This program option operates from 7:00 am - 5:30 pm, five days per week, year-round.

Children receive full-day, developmentally appropriate education services in age-level classes.

They also receive health screenings and eat healthy, balanced meals and snacks.

Teachers conduct two home visits and two Parent-Teacher Conferences per year.

Home Based Early Head StartThis program option serves children ages three and under in Beaverton and Hillsboro.

Home Based Teachers make weekly visits to families and teach them to use their homes as learning environments for their children.

Twice per month, families come together for Socialization experiences that facilitate positive parent-child bonding.

Parent training is provided through Socializations and parents involvement in Parent Site Meetings and Policy Council.

Coffee Creek ProgramThis innovative locally designed program option serves eight children up to age five whose mothers are incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

Through a partnership with Oregon Department of Corrections and in cooperation with the children's caregivers, teachers help incarcerated mothers bond with their children, learn parenting skills and prepare for parenting after they are released from prison.

Children attend class twice per week with their incarcerated mothers.

Coffee Creek program participants are also represented at Policy Council.

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