Social & Emotional Development

Our teachers and classrooms provide an environment where your child can develop important social and emotional skills, as well as a healthy concept of their personal identity.

Raising the Bar Nutrition

The Head Start nutrition program focuses on the importance of providing children birth to five, with nourishing meals that promote healthy eating patterns.

Head Start

Watch this touching story about Head Start. Click the play button to the right to see this video.

Engaging the Whole Child Education

Head Start provides a developmentally appropriate education to children who otherwise would not have the opportunity to be prepared for kindergarten.

Oral Health Care

Head Start takes an active role in dental preventive services and promoting oral health care by emphasizing the importance of good oral health habits at an early age and maintaining them throughout life.

Education

Head Start provides a developmentally appropriate education to children who otherwise would not have the opportunity to be prepared for kindergarten. Head Start children obtain educational outcomes in language, literacy, numeracy, science, and social development.

Self Sufficiency

Head Start aims to guide families in creating goals which lead them on a path to living self-determined lives – including the freedoms of self-sufficiency. Head Start is dedicated to promoting the empowerment of people by helping them to identify and capitalize on their strengths.

Health

Head Start provides a comprehensive program of health services to each child by promoting preventative health and early intervention. Families are provided skills, insights, and linkages needed to obtain ongoing health care.

Good-bye, Grandpa Jim Russell.

James Rollo Russell, known to generations of Head Start students as Grandpa Jim, passed away on April 7, 2012. He was born in Salt Lake City on July 12, 1921 to Isabel and Rollo Fred Russell. He dropped out of high school to serve in the military (Army) during WWII, but, recognizing the importance of education, he earned his high school diploma at the age of 81.

His vocation was with Utah Power and Light Company (Pacificorp). It wasn’t until after his retirement that he found his true calling as an activist for the Community Action Program (SLCAP), especially Head Start. He was elected President of SLCAP’s Board of Trustees on April 17th, 1991 and held that position until his passing. He was active in all SLCAP Programs and was their biggest cheerleader. Due to his volunteerism with Head Start, the James Russell Head Start School was dedicated to him to October 23, 2007. Over the years, Grandpa Jim read books in over 200 Head Start classrooms, touching thousands of children’s lives.

Friends may call on Thursday, April 12 from 7-9 p.m. at Larkin Mortuary, 260 East S. Temple. Interment, preceded by viewing at Larkin from 1-2 p.m. on April 13, will be at Salt Lake Cemetery. Friends and family are invited to participate in a Celebration of Grandpa Jim’s life on Friday, April 13 from 4-6 p.m. at Northwest Multipurpose Center, 1255 Clark Ave (300 N). Please bring stories of Grandpa Jim to share, both written and verbally.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Grandpa Jim’s name to Salt Lake Community Action Program/Head Start.

We will all miss this wonderful man who was a true example of what Community Action really is and exemplified “giving back.”