The Marion location of Early Head Start of Carey Services has again earned a five-year accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the world’s largest organization working on behalf of young children. NAEYC accreditation is a rigorous quality-improvement system that uses a set of 10...
Carey Services’ Early Head Start program was featured in the Marion Chronicle-Tribune recently as part of the paper’s regular full-page advertisement promoting the activities of Thriving Families Thriving Grant County. The agency’s early childhood education programming is adding two classrooms on the Marion campus to be able to increase...
Graduation has looked a little different this year for our Early Head Start children and families we support. With the suspension of programming because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our EHS staff continued to support our families, but the staff decided to take graduation to the homes this year to ensure...
Carey Services and the Early Head Start Program will participate in the annual Fall Fest on Oct. 3 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the YMCA in downtown Marion. The free annual event is sponsored by Little Giants Preschool – Head Start and the Early Head Start program. The event...
Carey Services’ Early Head Start program has released its annual report for the most recent program year, which ran from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018. The report highlights various accomplishments for the year, including obtaining the highest levels of accreditation, while serving more than 200 families and children...
Beth Wickham has joined Carey Services as the director of the agency’s Early Head Start program, replacing longtime director Cathy Queen, who recently retired. Wickham has more than 20 years of experience in Head Start programming. She began her Head Start career as a teacher and eventually became site director...
Early Head Start of Blackford County is accepting applications for new children ages 12 months to 3 years from eligible families. Contact the program office at (765) 348-2523 or Danielle Mill at (765) 668-8961, ext. 188.
Carey Services’ Early Head Start program is participating in National Head Start Awareness Month throughout the month of October. The National Head Start Association organizes national activities to raise awareness for the Head Start and Early Head Start programs throughout the country and for early childhood development issues in general....
Carey Services has released the September edition of Access, the monthly newsletter that highlights agency activities. The Access newsletter features information about the new agency promotional video, titled “When Opportunity Knocks, and also has details about this year’s Expressions art event, which will be Oct. 21. Also in the newsletter is...
Carey Services Early Head Start and Little Giants Preschool — Head Start are sponsoring their annual Fall Fest on Sept. 29. The event will be 4-7 p.m. at The River Church, 759 S. Lenfesty Ave. in Marion. The event is free and open to the public. Fall Fest activities are...