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DECC offers these programs and services for preschoolers throughout the state:
- Birth to Three Early Intervention Services - provides services from birth to three years for children with developmental delays and their families.
- Early Childhood Assistance (ECAP) - provides comprehensive preschool programs for 2, 3, and 4 year olds whose families are low income.
- Early Choices - offers special education and related services for three and four year old children with develomental delays or disabilities.
- English Language Learners - focuses on learning English language skills for children, from birth to seven years old, who are learning English, and their families.
- Even Start/English Language Learners (ELL) - offers family literacy services, adult education and parenting for children, birth to eight years old, and their families.
- Head Start/ECP Outcomes - evaluates annyally the progress of children and their families in Head Start and ECAP programs statewide.
- New Directions Early Head Start - provides home, community and center-based services for pregnant women and families of children, from birth to three years old.
- Parents as Teachers (PAT) - provides parenting education for parents of first born children, including newborns to three years of age.
- Relationships Empowering Learning and Affirming Teaching Excellent (RELATE) - offers professional development for directors and teachers caring for infants and toddlers.
- Training and Technical assistance - provides staff development for DECC teachers and other staff personnel working with young children and their families.
Click on the links in the contents pane at right to learn more about each of these programs.
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