Offers a preschool.

Part-time half day sessions focused on nurturing children's social, emotional, physical and intellectual development through play and group activities.

Hickory Knolls Preschool focuses on exploring natural world.

Pottawatomie Preschool offers structured classroom setting rich in educational materials and a Summer Preschool Program offering preparation for fall preschool or kindergarten.

The preschool is a part of the Larkin High School Childhood Education program. High school students work with children under faculty supervision. The schedule is based on a developmental age-appropriate preschool concept.

AM Session: 4/5 year old focus
PM Session: 3/4 year old focus

Offers early learning education services. Services work to help infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to develop intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally.

Offers part- and full-time childcare, preschool services, and extended childcare.

- Infant Education (6 weeks - 15 months): Teachers talk, read, and sing to infants and engage them in play. All activities are designed to ensure social-emotional development, as well as to build problem solving and self-help skills.

- Toddler Education (15 months - 2 years): Daily activities in this program promote language development, problem solving, motor skills, social interaction, and self help skills.

- Early Pre-School (2 - 3 years): Teachers begin encouraging independence, while offering science, math, art, and language development activities. Students also hone social and potty training skills.

- ROE Pre-School (3 - 5 years): Teachers promote math, early literacy, writing, art, science, social studies, technology, and social skills through play-based learning. Teachers design activities to meet the needs and interests of all children.

- Other programs for other age groups are available.

Intensive, research-based child development and family support services for families with children from birth to age three, with an aim of building a strong early learning foundation and preparing children for later school success.

SAL Community Services' Prevention Initiative program offers early, continuous child development and family support services in Rock Island County.

The comprehensive year-round program is for families with children currently enrolled in SAL's early childhood programs, including Skip-a-Long Childhood Centers and select licensed homes within our Home Child Care Network. It is also available to new families in the community who are interested in establishing a strong early learning foundation for their children.

Offers:

-- Educational opportunities, identified in collaboration with parents, on various topics related to early childhood development.

-- Referrals to community resources like funding options for early childhood education and care, housing, food, clothing, mental heath services, and more.

-- Strength-based family goal planning.

-- A resource library for books and toys to support early learning activities in the home.

Intensive, research-based child development and family support services for families with children from birth to age three, with an aim of building a strong early learning foundation and preparing children for later school success.

SAL Community Services' Prevention Initiative program offers early, continuous child development and family support services in Rock Island County.

The comprehensive year-round program is for families with children currently enrolled in SAL's early childhood programs, including Skip-a-Long Childhood Centers and select licensed homes within our Home Child Care Network. It is also available to new families in the community who are interested in establishing a strong early learning foundation for their children.

Offers:

-- Educational opportunities, identified in collaboration with parents, on various topics related to early childhood development.

-- Referrals to community resources like funding options for early childhood education and care, housing, food, clothing, mental heath services, and more.

-- Strength-based family goal planning.

-- A resource library for books and toys to support early learning activities in the home.

Offers children to participate in various activities and staged play to explore with a balance of language, sensory, fine and gross motor, art, math, music, cognitive and social-emotional concepts.

Preschool services for children with disabilities aged 0 through 5 years.

School services for children with disabilities ages 6 through 21.

Service coordination for families of children with disabilities ages 0 through 3 years.

Consultation regarding Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Assistive Technology, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Deaf/Blind, Planning Region 3.

Head Start is a federally-funded program that serves children from ages three to five and pregnant women, offering a school readiness program in addition to comprehensive services to children and their families who meet income guidelines.

Federally-funded early childhood development program to increase school readiness of young children in low-income families.

Head Start is Partnered with the following schools and districts:

- Niobrara Public School (North Hwy 12, Niobrara, NE 68760)

- Norfolk Public Schools (2500 West Norfolk Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701)

- Wisner-Pilger Public School (801 18th Street, Wisner, NE 68791)

- Pender Public School (609 Whitney Street, Pender, NE 68047)

Educational and social support services to assist parents with children birth to age five. Services include home-based early childhood education, home-based supportive services, group parenting meetings, developmental screening, and planned learning activities for children. Four-year-old free preschool program.

Early Development Network provides service coordination for children, birth to three years, with disabilities or special needs to access community services. Families are linked with developmental evaluations through the schools, Nebraska Health and Human Services programs, health resources, parent-to-parent support, and other supports and services as identified by the families' priorities.