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Provides parents and pregnant individuals with knowledge and resources necessary to prepare children for a strong start in life and success in school. Educators visit the home twice monthly to monitor child development, answer parenting questions, and address other struggles that could interfere with a child's success.

Providing families, a free, year-round preschool program for children. Delivers comprehensive early childhood education and support services, covering health, dental care, nutrition, special education, parent skill workshops, mental health, and social services. Also ensures a nutritious daily breakfast, lunch, and snack. Services includes:

1. Education: Providing a safe and engaging preschool learning environment, tailored to each child's interests, languages, cultures, and learning styles. Regular Parent/Teacher conferences and meetings are held.

2. Special Education Services: Prioritizing enrollment for children with disabilities, ensuring an inclusive environment.

3. Family Services: Assigning a Family Advocate to each family, aiding in goal setting, identifying strengths, and linking families to social services referrals for positive child development.

4. Family Involvement: Encouraging family participation in individualized services, events, parent trainings, and volunteering, including serving on committees like the Policy Council.

5. Mental Health: Offering mental wellness activities in classrooms and collaborating with families on their child's mental health and behavior.

6. Health: Assisting families in accessing needed health services, ensuring children have required vaccinations, physical and dental exams, and hearing and vision screenings.

7. Nutrition: Providing nutritious meals and involving families in menu development while offering guidance on instilling healthy nutrition habits at home.

Empowers parents and family members, a nine-week program ensuring babies receive the best possible start. Sessions run offering breakfast, lunch, onsite childcare, safety tips, guidance on connecting with resources, insights into child development stages, and giveaways. Following program completion, staff maintain regular follow-ups through monthly home visits and phone calls.

Empowers parents and family members, a nine-week program ensuring babies receive the best possible start. Sessions run offering breakfast, lunch, onsite childcare, safety tips, guidance on connecting with resources, insights into child development stages, and giveaways. Following program completion, staff maintain regular follow-ups through monthly home visits and phone calls.

Empowers parents and family members, a nine-week program ensuring babies receive the best possible start. Sessions run offering breakfast, lunch, onsite childcare, safety tips, guidance on connecting with resources, insights into child development stages, and giveaways. Following program completion, staff maintain regular follow-ups through monthly home visits and phone calls.

Empowers parents with tips and techniques for giving their child the best start in life. Parents receive personal visits, group connections, resource networks, and child health screenings—all free of charge. Equips parents with tools to enhance parenting practices, increase their child's early learning success, and set them on a path to school readiness by increasing knowledge about child development stages.

• Parenting in Recovery: Conducts groups supporting families with substance abuse histories, emphasizing effective parenting skills.

• Parenting Workshops and Groups: Offers interactive programs tailored to meet the specific needs of participating parents, covering various aspects of child development at sites throughout Ocean County.

• Anger Management Program: Conducts stress and anger management groups for Ocean County residents, aiding in trigger identification and coping skill enhancement.

• Blissful Babies - Infant Massage Classes: Provides weekly classes for deep bonding between new mothers and babies, promoting healthy sleeping, assisting with elimination concerns, and reducing colic/gas. Classes, instructed by certified Infant Massage Instructors, are available with a provided schedule.

Offers a program that focuses on supporting parents as their child first teacher. Provides home visitation services that include information on child development, parent-child interaction, and family well-being through a parent educator program. Group meetings are offered once a month to foster relationships with other families and the community.