A healthy pregnancy is crucial for a child’s healthy growth and development. Cheaha Regional Early Head Start program provides early and ongoing supports and services that offer the best chances for: healthy pregnancies and positive childbirth outcomes; supportive care for parents and child after delivery; fathers to be fully involved in the lives of their children; enhancing parent-child attachment; and parents to develop as nurturing and responsive caregivers. 

Cheaha Regional Head Start provides services for the child and family upon delivery. The goal of serving pregnant women and expectant families in EHS is to provide early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services. Planning for the newborn child’s transition to the appropriate EHS site will begin when the pregnant woman is enrolled in the EHS program.