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CAECI Early Head Start

CAECI Early Head Start serves infants, toddlers, and pregnant women throughout Wayne County, Indiana. For more information, contact us at (765) 935-3509.

07/19/2024

06/17/2024

🌞🌡️ Extreme Heat Alert: Stay Cool at Our Area Cooling Stations! 🌡️🌞

With the extreme heat in the area this week, it's more important than ever to stay cool and hydrated. If you or someone you know needs a place to escape the heat, check out these local cooling centers in Wayne County.....

Stay safe, stay cool, and take care of each other during this heatwave. For more information on heat safety, visit weather.gov/heat.

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05/15/2024

We Mustache you to join us this Saturday.

02/13/2024

LifeStream is excited to offer a PASTA (Parenting a Second Time Around) workshop in Wayne County in partnership with Head Start and Strengthening Indiana Families! This is an educational support group for anyone offering kinship care for other children, such as grandparents raising grandchildren or an aunt raising a niece or nephew, in need of support and resources. Please note: RSVP is required for this workshop.

If you're interested in attending, please RSVP with Angela Wissler, Supervisory Family Coach, at (765) 935-3509 ext. 311 or [email protected]. The deadline to RSVP is this Friday, February 16.

01/27/2024

Powerful training opportunity for Parents of Richmond Community Schools students. Don’t misss this !!

12/10/2023

Many of our staff have been on professional development trainings. We are excited to implement all the amazing things learned to our program. We're always researching to better serve our families.

10/23/2023

Come see Head Start and CAECI Early Head Start at Safety Village

07/31/2023

This Saturday August 5th 10am-1pm

07/09/2023

Wondering if your family qualifies for Head Start programs? Visit the ECKLC for the Poverty Guidelines to see if your family qualifies. Together, let's unlock a successful future for your little ones!

https://buff.ly/2IL3Hoy

06/28/2023

Just a reminder CAECI Early Head Start will be closed:
Friday June 30th for Staff Development &
Monday July 3rd through Friday July 7th for Summer Break

06/02/2023

A huge thank you to the Boys and Girls Club! It is so appreciated 😀

05/20/2023

2nd Annual Diaper Dash is underway!

05/20/2023

Setting up for the Diaper Dash

04/13/2023

Early Head Start and Head Start will be closed Friday April 14th. Stay safe!

02/24/2023

EHS kids went on a bear hunt today!! So fun 😍

11/29/2022

Join us this Thursday, Dec. 1 at Morrisson-Reeves Library from 4-6 PM for our final Ask A Lawyer event of 2022! Open to all Wayne and surrounding county residents who cannot afford private legal counsel.

11/29/2022

December is just around the corner, which means that Wayne County is full of holiday cheer! We compiled a list of some of the upcoming holiday we know about. Sorry if we missed yours - there's just so much happening!

10/05/2022

Expanding the outdoor season for the children at Early Head Start with a new gazebo!

09/25/2022

Due to the City of Richmond closing in honor of officer Seara Burton, Early Head Start will be closed Monday 9/26/2022 to allow staff members to attend the services.The program will resume normal operations on Tuesday 9/27/2022.

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Early Head Start’s Story

CAECI Early Head Start is operated by Community Action of East Central Indiana (CAECI), a private not-for-profit organization established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America's War on Poverty in East Central Indiana. Since 2010, CAECI Early Head Start serving infants, toddlers, and pregnant women with home-based and center-based services. Our home-based option consists of one 90-minute home visit per week during which a trained Family Coach provides support both to the enrolled child as well as the child’s parents. (Due to COVID-19, home visits have been suspended and contact is being made via telephone and video chat/conference.) Our center-based option consists of 6 hours per day, 5 days per week in mixed-age classrooms in our licensed child care facility. (Due to COVID-19, each of our four classrooms is currently operating only two days per week.)