Hualapai Tribe Head Start Mission Statement

Hualapai Tribe Head Start is funded through the Office of Head Start Federal Grant. Hualapai Head Start serves 57 children in and around the Peach Springs, Arizona area. The Head Start program provides an early childhood learning program that prepares children to enter Kindergarten, healthy and ready to learn.

Hualapai Head Start is an educational program that gets young children and their families ready for school and ready for life. The Head Start program’s goal is to provide a quality education and health services for low income families stated in the Head Start Program Performance Standards.
Hualapai is a center base program that provides researched evidence based child development curriculum, build family and community partnerships, parent education, health screenings (vision, hearing, cognitive, social-emotional, mental health, disabilities, and health services), and school readiness skills.

Research has shown the major impacts to children and families who attend Head Start. Just to name a few of the benefits to attend a preschool program are: significant impacts on cognitive development, significant impacts were found on increase language development, favorable impacts on several aspects of social-emotional development, favorable parenting outcomes and progress towards self-sufficiency, and favorable impacts with fathering and father-child interactions (Early Head Start Research, Making a difference in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers and Their Families: The Impacts of Early Head Start (2002).

The Head Start staff are extraordinary early childhood leaders building culturally integrated lifelong learners by creating infinite opportunities with the support of educators, families, and the community of Hwal’bay people.

The Head Start center operates a part day/part year program with four classrooms, four days per week, Monday to Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. each day. Our qualified staff provides a healthy and safe learning environment for children between the ages of three to five years old. The program plan to offer transportation services to families based on need and distance from the center. We invite you to come stop by and see us.
Any interested families should bring a copy of their CIB, Birth certificate, proof of residence and income information (pay stubs for the past 12 months).

Children must qualify to receive Head Start services based on income eligibility. We are always actively recruiting children and families for the program.

Head Start welcomes volunteers to the program as well. Please call the center at 928- 769-2522.