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WSOS provides comprehensive family development, workforce development, education and child care assistance and other support services to families and individuals desiring to obtain basic needs stability, greater independence and self sufficiency.
Staff help families prepare for successful employment opportunities. We help individuals gain and retain employment with benefits, provide follow up services to ensure long term job retention and build community partnerships to support these efforts.
This is addressed through basic needs financial assistance programs, family and workforce development activities including case management, life skills, educational and vocational development and individual counseling.
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Center Based Option
What is Center-based?
Children enrolled in this option attend class 3 ? hours daily, Monday through Thursday during the school year. Morning and afternoon sessions are offered at most centers. Each family receives at least two home visits per year and two parent-teacher conferences per year. The center-based option is a traditional pre-school program, with group sizes between 15 and 20 children. Transportation is offered at many of our centers. Children will receive a nutritional meal and snack while at the program.
A Typical Day at the Center
| Activites - Learning skills through active play |
| Outdoor Time |
Table Toys |
| Dramatic Play |
Health Activities |
| Art |
Self Help Skills |
| Music |
Circle Time |
| Math and Science |
Language and Literacy |
| Meals & Snacks - Breakfast or lunch is served. Children learn healthy habits through |
| Serving Foods |
Hand Washing |
| Table Settings |
Brushing Teeth |
| Dismissal - Recall of day's activity |
| Language skills |
| Services Relate to |
| Education |
Health |
| Parent Involvement |
Social Services |
The Benefits
The Head Start experience gives children:
- Speech, hearing & vision screenings
- General developmental screenings
- Educational experiences such as music, stories & dramatic play.
A Family Qualifies if...
- Parents are working and/or involved with a training program
- Parents meet income guidelines
- An application is completed for each child to use the service
- Kids complete a physical and dental exam and have up-to-date immunizations
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