Grand Opening Celebration of Early Head Start at La Seda Elementary

What

Grand Opening Celebration of Early Head Start at La Seda Elementary

When

11/4/2010, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Where

La Seda Elementary Campus

OPTIONS – A CHILD CARE AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY

885 S. Village Oaks Drive, Covina, CA  91744

Tel. (626) 967-7848  Fax: (626) 967-8638  www.optionscc.org

 

 

MEDIA CONTACT:

Diane Quast, Options – A Child Care and Human Services Agency, (310) 251-8636

 

Media Advisory for Thursday, November 4, 2010

 

COMMUNITY TO CELEBRATE NEW EARLY HEAD START PROGRAM ASSISTING PREGNANT TEENS AND FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN

 

WHAT:            Options-Early Head Start will hold a festive grand opening ceremony on Thursday, November 4 at 10:00 a.m. celebrating the creation of a new facility on campus at La Seda Elementary. The Options-Early Head Start program features three infant/toddler specific classrooms providing services to 24 children and their families ages birth to three.  The program is fully enrolled, and since opening in May 2010 has already transitioned five children into high quality preschool programs in the community. 

 

                        Options – Early Head Start provides a full-day comprehensive child and family development services for low-income expectant families, and families with children ages birth to three. It also provides early, continuous and comprehensive child development and family support services.  The purpose of the program is to enhance children’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development and to support parents’ efforts to fulfill their parental roles and move toward self-sufficiency.  Parents are required to be employed, or enrolled in high school, college or a vocational program to be eligible.

 

                        Options – Early Head Start works in collaboration with Rowland Unified School District’s Cal-Safe program at Santana High School and West Covina Unified School District’s Cal-Safe Program at Coronado High School.  Options’ EHS program offers both center-based and home-based programs, and is open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. year round.

                                   

WHEN:             Thursday, November 4, 2010

                          10:00 a.m.  – Opening Ceremony

                          11:00 a.m. – Tours of preschool classrooms

 

WHO:               Cliff Marcussen, Executive Director and Founder, Options – A Child Care and Human Services Agency

Dr. Maria Ott, Superintendent, Rowland Unified School District

 

VISUALS:        Ribbon-cutting ceremony

                          Toddler and Preschool children performing

 

WHERE:           La Seda Elementary School

18410 Renault Street 

                          La Puente, CA 91744

 

Options – A Child Care and Human Services Agency is a distinguished non-profit child care and after school program provider that manages programs on more than 60 school campuses throughout the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier areas of Los Angeles. Established to meet the growing need for early education opportunities for preschool and school aged youth, it has grown from a single school age program to a sophisticated agency operating more than 100-licensed child care and after school programs, and a variety of other child care and development programs that serve over 10,000 youth/families annually.