CHILDREN,YOUTH AND FAMILIES

Applications are now available for families who want to enroll their children in Total Community Action’s Head Start program in Orleans Parish. Click Here to apply.

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Total Community Action, Inc.’s (TCA) Office for Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) is responsible for agency programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, and individuals. Programs administered by OCYF are designed to:

• Promote the development of infants and toddlers and to enable their parents to fulfill their roles as parents and to move toward self-sufficiency,

• Promote the school readiness of low-income children by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development in a learning environment that supports children’s growth in language, literacy, mathematics, science, social and emotional function, creative arts, physical skills, and approaches to learning,

• Assist individuals, families, and parents in developing, implementing, and evaluating a path out of poverty – moving toward self-sufficiency.

• Help children to develop into healthy adults

OCYF has operational, administrative and programmatic oversight of all programs, services, and activities that directly impact children ages 0-11, their families, and individuals and families involved in the process of moving toward self-sufficiency. OCYF programs are designed to achieve the following outcomes

• Individuals and families empowered to increase their own economic independence and productivity;

• Strong, healthy, supportive communities that have a positive impact on the quality of life and the development of children;

• Partnerships with institutions, organizations, individuals, and agencies that enable solutions which transcend traditional agency boundaries;

• Services planned, reformed, and integrated to improve needed access;

• Young children “ready” for school upon transition from Head Start; and

• Strong, community-based support systems for children as they transition from childhood into their pre-teen years.

Programs and Initiatives:

• Head Start

• Total Family

• Fatherhood/Male Involvement

Below is a complete listing of TCA Head Start Centers (Please note new phone numbers for Head Start Centers) :

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