Addie Mae Collins Community Service :||: To give you a Headstart Addie Mae Collins Community Service is a nonprofit program that has provided Head Start and other services to the children of East Harlem and its surrounding communities for more than 40 years. Guided by an unerring belief that every child has an innate desire to learn and grow Addie Mae Collins uses the Creative Curriculum in its Head Start to provide children with comprehensive experiences designed to stimulate and foster their cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development even as we stretch the boundaries of Head Start?s guiding principals-the Performance Standards, to reach out to and to include our parents and surrounding community in as many of the children?s early childhood learning opportunities as possible. We also support a dance troupe of former Head Start youngsters with a passion for dance. The group, Stars of Tomorrow, perform throughout the city under the guidance and choreography of another former Addie Mae Collins student. How We Do It The active involvement of parents/caregivers and community members is the key to a successful Head Start experience. Through shared decision making the Board of Directors, parent committees (Delegate Agency Policy Committee, and Center Policy Committees, various community partners, and through the employment of trained, motivated, nurturing, and dedicated staff and volunteer core allow us to provide a program that encourages and prepares children to reach their full potential. What We Intend To Do After more than forty years of serving the community and building a proven track record of achievement as is evidenced by the number of former children, parents, and staff of Addie Mae Collins who have gone on to achieve various levels of personal and professional success the program intends to expand. The Board of Directors is actively seeking members who can help strengthen the program and contribute to its continued development. The program has begun an aggressive initiative that refocuses our resources on the development of children?s abilities in the areas of math, science and the arts with an emphasis on language and literacy in each. We have also committed to providing more opportunities and resources to our extended Head Start family (parents and siblings) and larger community that allow them to achieve measurable prosperity in their lives. Much of what we intend to accomplish will require the solicitation of civic minded private, corporate, and foundation partnership Addiemaecollins.org~Site InfoWhoisTrace RouteRBL Check
