Early Education Center at Madison Park
The Early Education Center at Madison Park is licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care and is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Located at Madison Park Vocational Technical High School in Roxbury, the center provides quality child care and early education for families headed by young parents who are completing high school or pursuing employment and/or training. The center supports the cognitive, emotional, and developmental needs of children ages birth to five years, providing them with a foundation to enter kindergarten and achieve academic success.
FLASH
The Family Literacy program is an intensive home visiting program designed to strengthen parents' role as their young child's first and most effective teacher by supporting language development through increased verbal interaction, educational play, and reading on a daily basis. The program serves low-income families with children ages 18 months to three years.Literacy coaches trained in home visiting meet with families weekly, bringing free, high quality children's books and educational toys. The curricula, offered in two, 24-week phases, is designed to help parents learn how to foster language, literacy and school readiness skills to prepare their children for success in school and later in life. The program is a research-backed model, focused on advancing literacy gains for children, as well as training parents to become effective teachers and to connect families to public resources such as libraries, museums and schools.
Healthy Families
Healthy Families is an intensive home visiting program for pregnant and parenting teenagers. The goals of the program are to prevent child abuse and neglect, promote healthy development, encourage academic achievement and self-sufficiency, and to prevent repeat teen pregnancies. Home visitors promote the development of effective parenting skills through education on prenatal care, labor and delivery, child development, parenting, nutrition, and birth control. Participants remain in the program until the child turns three years of age.
