Human Resources Council Dist Xll Head Start
Barb Brophy, Director
PO Box 608
Butte, MT 59701
Phone: (406) 723-4078
Fax: (406) 723-5620
E-mail:
butteheadstart@montana.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~buttedillonheadstart/
Counties Served: Beaverhead, Madison, Silver Bow
Butte Head Start Overview
Butte Head Start
promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive
development of low-income children through the provision of health,
educational, nutritional, social and other services that are determined
to be necessary.
Parent involvement in their child's education and development, setting and meeting family goals and program planning are a critical part of the program.
Our Mission Statement
Head Start will become a role model, which strengthens the partnership
between families, staff and community by providing a comprehensive
program with emphasis on education, social services, health/nutrition
and parent involvement.
Creative Curriculum
The
Creative Curriculum is a rich environmental program that is well planned
and orchestrated for children 3-5 year olds. Children have an
opportunity to explore, invent, problem solve and create using a hands
on approach to ensure a stimulating environment.
The curriculum is supplemented with the Good Talking Words Social Skill Program, The Kelly Bear Preschool Drug Prevention Program and Talking about Touch Personal Safety Program. All of these programs are focused on preschool and implement the learning of good life skills. The programs are skill based to encourage empathy, problem solving, expressing oneself in a positive way and dealing with difficult situations and are practiced and talked about in the individual lessons. Our curriculum is well rounded and interesting for children plus it offers parental education and activities that can be completed at home.
Education Options
Center
Base Option: Enrolled children for the center base program
attends class four days a week (Monday - Thursday) from 10:00 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. Currently we have 11 classrooms located in Silverbow county
and 1 classroom in Beaverhead county.
Full
Day/Full Year Option:
Home
Based Option: A Home Base teacher will visit you in your home
once a week to do fun activities with you and your child. You can talk
with the teacher about discipline, child development, social skills, and
health and parent information. Our goal is to work with families in
order to enrich the lives of their children in such a way that they will
feel good about themselves and be better prepared to succeed in school.
Home Base is available in Beaverhead and Madison counties.
What happens in Home Base Head Start? The teacher will visit you and your child on day per week for about one and a half hours. During this time you and the teacher will spend one hour teaching your child and introducing, reinforcing, and developing skills that you have deemed important and have discussed with the teacher. Children receive all of the services that the students in the Head Start Center receive.
Other Services
Are the children transported to and from Head
Start? YES. Head Start buses are available to provide transportation
for the children attending the center base program.
Do you offer Mental Health Services? YES. The Western Montana Mental Health Blossom Program. The Blossom program helps students who are experiencing problems such as poor peer and family relationships, classroom difficulties, aggressive behaviors or disabling fear.
Communities Serviced
- Silver Bow County
- Butte
- Ramsay
- Beaverhead County
- Dillon
- Lima
- Madison County
- Ennis
- Harrison
- Sheridan
- Twin Bridges
- Virginia City
Program Statistics
Butte Head Start has a funded enrollment of 223
children for Silver Bow, Beaverhead and Madison Counties. Our 12 center
based classrooms are located in Butte (11) and Dillon (1). The Full
Day/Full Year Program is currently in 9 Child Care Families and we have
1 Home Based teacher able to serve 10 children in Beaverhead and
Madison.
- Community Sites:
- Butte 1000 S. Arizona, Butte, Montana
- Emerson School 1924 Phillips, Butte, Montana
- Lincoln School 100 N. Clark, Butte, Montana
- Dillon 610 N. Montana, Dillon, Montana
- Total funded enrollment:
- Children served in 99-00: 245
- 36-48 months: 83 (34%)
- 48-60 months: 86 (35%)
- over 60 months:
- Total federal
funding:
- Average cost per
child:
- Employees:
56
- Past/current parents:
- Volunteers: 358
- Past/current parents:
Classrooms
- 12 Classes
- 17-19 Children
per class
- 12
Teachers
- 12
Teacher Assistants
- 2
Teachers With Assoc.
Degree in Early
Childhood
- 1
Teachers with
Bachelors Degree in
Early Childhood
- 6
Teachers in training
for Associate in
Early Childhood
Degree
- 9
Teachers with
CDA
- 1
Teacher Aides
Assoc. Degree in
Early Childhood
- 4 Teacher Assistants In CDA training