Head Start

      CDCFC, Inc. provides high quality, comprehensive development programs and services to income-eligible children and their families. Children ages 3-5 years old may attend full or part-day preschool classes that focus on developing school readiness skills, along with providing health, nutrition, and other social services throughout program enrollment.

Program highlights:

R.I.S.E.

(Raising Intellectual Scholars of Excellence)

      To help promote literacy, CDCFC in cooperation with parents and guardians at Linden Recreation Center have implemented a preschool literacy program called R.I.S.E., designed to improve the vocabulary and reading skills of Head Start children through intentional activities of their caregivers.

      In the video, teachers are demonstrating to parents how to read to their children in two formats. The first teacher is reading straight from the book. She introduced the author and began to read the story in its entirety. The second teacher is demonstrating how to read to your child without actually reading from the book. She is reading using the pictures that are in the book and allowing the reader to create the story using their vision.

Early Head Start

      All children are special at CDCFC and none more so than the tiniest ones in our care. Our Early Head Start (EHS) program is designed for the optimum care, education and comfort of infants/toddlers 0 – 3 and pregnant women.

EHS program highlights include:

We follow the Four Cornerstones of Early Head Start:

Child Care

      CDCFC offers affordable, full day child care for working families that do not qualify for Head Start services. Private payment and Child Care Subsidy (formerly Title XX) are accepted, and payments may be made on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly schedule, according to your needs. Services are provided at one of three locations throughout the city: Deshler (East) and Lindbergh (West) child care centers are located in modular units and our Canal Winchester (Far East) center is located at The Meadows apartment complex.

Much like CDCFC Head Start, our child care programs provide the highest quality Early Care and Education services for 3 to 5-year-olds:

Child Care Partners

      Our agency partners with numerous privately-owned child care programs throughout the Greater Columbus Area, including KinderCare, Mother’s Helper and the YWCA. This option is primarily available for families who either do not qualify for Head Start services or who live in communities which do not have a Head Start center nearby. CDCFC partner programs share our commitment to service excellence and like CDCFC centers, are fully licensed by the State of Ohio.

In the Child Care Partnership program:

Other Services

CDCFC provides several special services in addition to our standard programs:

♥ Food is Elementary, a healthy eating/nutrition program in collaboration with Local Matters, an area nonprofit committed to the growth and consumption of local food. Our work with Local Matters is targeted towards creating healthy children and adults, and eradicating child obesity. Children are given classroom and take-home instruction that teaches them about the true origins of food and the benefits of healthy eating/lifestyle. Veggie Vans travel to centers weekly, providing families with low-cost, healthy, fresh produce. This on-site accessible option is especially helpful for families, since accepted forms of payment include the Ohio Direction Card (food stamps).

♥ Cub/Boy Scouts

♥ Youth mentoring.

     CDCFC Inc. provides high quality comprehensive development programs and services to income-eligible children and their families. Children may attend full or half-day preschool classes that focus on developing school readiness skills along with providing health nutrition and other social services throughout program enrollment. To meet the unique needs of our families CDCFC offers a variety of program options. Early Head Start (EHS) is a federally funded community-based program for low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women. Its mission is simple:

♥ to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women
♥ to enhance the development of very young children and
♥ to promote healthy family functioning.

      EHS evolved out of Head Start’s long history of providing services to infants and toddlers through Parent Child Centers Comprehensive Child Development Centers Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs and other early child development and family support efforts serving families with very young children. Recent advances in the field of infant development make EHS services so important.

♥Parents have the primary responsibility for their children and are partners with CDCFC in assisting with their development.

♥Children and youth must be our country’s highest priority for the investment of time, money and resources.

♥Our families deserve the same respect, social benefits and access to resources as families from any community; therefore, we are committed to quality, integrity and continuous improvement of the programs we deliver.

♥Our programs must be accountable to the community in which we work, and the dollars invested must have maximum benefit.

♥It is the responsibility of each team member to recruit and keep satisfied customers.

♥Service to our customers takes priority over all other tasks.