Beliefs

As a NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene licensed Head Start program, Community Parents, Inc. believes that learning is an essential part of every child’s life., Community Parents, Inc. believes that learning is an essential part of every child’s life. Play and exploration are natural aspects of a child’s need to learn and to satisfy their curiosity about the world around them. While playing and interacting with one another, children can develop abilities and ideas which are fundamental to future learning.

Each of us at Community Parents, Inc. has a responsibility to provide an environment which helps children grow and thrive. We do this through planning and meeting with parents and staff.

As educators, we use creative ways to motivate and help with each child’s development as we encourage interplay among social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth. Along with this, we recognize that each child develops at his and her own pace.

In this process, we must also identify ways to work with other community agencies and organizations to effectively address family needs and to encourage parents to participate in the learning process.

We work collectively, using all available resources to educate the children who come to our program. Some of these resources may center around the development of ethnic pride and the awareness of the diverse cultures in our community. There are many avenues of learning to discover and foster that occur at home, in school, and in the community. As we uncover these paths of learning, our main objective and commitment is to educate and to develop the total child.