The Mayor's Office for Education and Children (MOEC) partners with other city agencies and community based organizations to leverage resources and provide comprehensive services to support parents as teachers and prepare children for kindergarten.   

The benefit of investment through public/private partnerships is significant. The return of every dollar leveraged from early childhood development results in later school success, more educated workers, and less crime.

Programs and Initiatives

Denver's Great Kids Head Start - provides comprehensive early care and education to prepare children for kindergarten and future school success  

 

The 5 By 5 Project - provides Denver's Head Start families opportunities to experience thirteen of Denver's top cultural attractions at no cost 

 

Healthy Preschoolers Project - educates low income families about public health insurance and "medical homes'”

 

Quality Child Care - an initiative to increase access to quality child care and increase quality of early childhood education programs   

Community Assessment

During 2010, Denver's Great Kids Head Start conducted a comprehensive community assessment to help Early  Head Start and Head Start policy makers, parents, community stakeholders and the community-at-large understand the early care and education needs of low-income families.  Click here to review briefs, maps, and the full report - 2010 Community Assessment.