Capital Area Head Start Reveals Specialty Community Room
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December 10, 2024
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Harrisburg, PA (December 10, 2024) – Capital Area Head Start (CAHS) revealed its new community room at the Banks Street Center in Harrisburg, PA during an open house on December 10. Created in partnership with the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing initiative, the community room fosters child and family relationships through literacy, music, and oral language.
The room offers a private, comfortable environment where families, teachers, and other CAHS staff can engage in meaningful conversations around children’s behavioral health, developmental needs, and family resources. Available during student drop-off and pick-up, the community room provides families with a calm, engaging space to connect with each other. The room is divided into several areas to promote learning and relationships:
Families can also access services or resources through available laptops.
“This is just the beginning of the possibilities for this new community room,” said Shawnee Hooper, Executive Director of Capital Area Head Start. “Our goal is to continue to provide a rich environment for children and families to strengthen their relationships and take an active role in each other’s lives.”
Capital Area Head Start has plans to hold workshops for parents and families, bringing in expert speakers from the community. The room will also play a vital role in supporting children and families in Early Head Start as they transition to preschool.
Located at 51 Banks Street in Harrisburg, the Banks Street Center currently serves 166 children in 10 classrooms.
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About Capital Area Head Start
Capital Area Head Start is a program of Keystone Human Services that has been providing services for children and families in Dauphin, Cumberland, and Perry Counties in Pennsylvania since 1988. CAHS’s pre-kindergarten programs are comprehensive, state- and federally-funded child development programs, serving children ages 3-5. Early Head Start serves children birth to three and women who are pregnant.
About Keystone Human Services
KHS is a multi-national human services organization based in Harrisburg, PA. KHS operates in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, the Republic of Moldova, and India, providing advocacy, services, and supports in early childhood education and family support, mental health, autism, and intellectual, developmental, cognitive, and physical disability. We build communities where everyone can thrive, direct their own lives, establish homes, find meaningful work, pursue education alongside their peers, and fill valued roles in the community. In addition to operating as KHS, KHS provides services through Susquehanna Service Dogs (SSD), Capital Area Head Start (CAHS), Partnerships for People, Key Human Services, Keystone Moldova, and Keystone Institute India.
More information can be found at KHS.org.
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