Home-Based - Lower Sioux Early Head Start and Head Start

Home-Based Program

Our Home-Based program provides year-round wrap around services at no cost to families with children birth to three and now to families with children three to five! The program provides diapers, wipes, and formula month or as needed.

With families, we develop and implement individual education plans for children's social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development that is appropriate for their age.

This program uses:

Partners for Health Baby
Family Spirit
Creative Curriculum

Program Services

Comprehensive services are provided weekly within the family's own home and embraces the parent-child relationship. Family support and services provide resources, monitor child development and so much more!

Weekly 90 minute visits

Flexible days & times
Bi-Weekly Kawitaya Socializations in the Center with other Home-Based families

Dakota Lifeways & Language Education Services

Health & Nutrition
Early Intervention
Social/Educational/Cognitive/Physical Development
Vision & Hearing Screenings

Meet Miss Leith

Miss Ariella Leith has been at Lower Sioux Early Head Start since March 2018. She has center-based teaching experiences and CDA training. She is an enrolled Lower Sioux member and Foster Aunty.

A few of her favorite things:

Being with family and friends
Traveling
Learning Dakota language

“Han, Ariella Leith emakiyapi ye. As the Home-Based Teacher I provide age appropriate curriculum to the children & families I serve in the comfort of their own homes. With my role I get to have a personal relationship with my families & help enhance their parent-child relationship."

~ Ariella Leith, Home-Based Teacher