CMCS’ Early Childhood Education Division offers comprehensive wellness supports for both families and employees. The combination of parenting programs, social work, mental health, and nutrition consulting ensures a well-rounded approach to child development. Plus, providing wellness support for our employees enhance their ability to care for and educate young children effectively.
Our Preventative Services are a series of proactive early intervention programs to aid with keeping families together and address potential risk to children. The focus is to establish independence and help families acquire appropriate skills, which promote safety for their children and empower families to be self-sufficient.
Early Childhood Education Division (ECED) implements a nutrition program that meets the nutritional requirements and feeding needs of each child. This includes children who require special dietary assistance. Students receive breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily and at no cost.
Our Preventive Services are a series of proactive early intervention programs to aid with keeping families together and address potential risk to children. The focus is to establish independence and help families acquire appropriate skills, which promote safety for their children and empower families to be self-sufficient. Additionally, we work to strengthen families as they cope with the day-to-day pressures as well as life tragedies that can challenge parental capacity to appropriately care for and protect children. Most of the families we serve consist of single parents who are suffering from the effects of poverty, working families who struggle with raising their children, families who feel displaced and are culturally alienated in a new homeland and families who struggle with their mental health and/or substance abuse. CMCS Preventive Services have helped many families to achieve more stable and functional lives and homes, able to secure the wellbeing of their children and find positive relationships with the community as a whole.
CMCS operates two prevention programs. Our Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program works with some of the most vulnerable children and families in the city as they are suffering from significant mental health illness, struggle with substance abuse and in most instances, multiple family members are challenged with both.
Special Medical and Developmental Preventive services are intended for families with either a child with special medical needs, a child and/or parent with a developmental disability, or a child in need of early permanency planning due to a parent’s illness. The goal of these services is to support families in accessing services, treatment and supports to meet their children’s and/or their own medical needs. The services are designed to mitigate the impact of a parent’s chronic or terminal illness and provide a bridge to more long-term services for families with children with special medical needs, developmental disabilities, or both. Additionally, the program assists a terminally ill parent to identify a future permanency resource and helps them plan and prepare for the transfer of custody of their children. CMCS is one of four providers selected to work with this extremely vulnerable population.
The Early Head Start Prenatal program offers supportive services as early in life as possible. The prenatal period of growth and development has a lasting impact on the child’s potential for healthy growth and development after birth. Early Head Start programs provide services to expectant families through the child’s first three years of life and assist expecting families to access comprehensive prenatal, postpartum care, and social service needs.
Fathers and male figures within the ECED community are empowered with the tools and knowledge necessary to pursue fulfilling career opportunities that contribute to their personal and professional growth. It extends beyond the father-child dynamic to encompass partnerships and familial relationships, where effective communication and conflict resolution serve as cornerstones for building enduring bonds and navigating the complexities of family life.
ECED implements a nutrition program that meets the nutritional requirements and feeding needs of each child. This includes children who require special dietary assistance. Students receive breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily and at no cost.
Please contact us with any questions you may have about those we serve or the work that we do at Cardinal McCloskey Community Services.
