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Promoting Children's Early Development

The future of our communities lies within the hearts and minds of our children. At El Valor, we touch the future through a continuum of education programs that stimulate and challenge children early in life, and reinforce strong relationships with their families.

Early Intervention works to strengthen families that have a child under three years of age with a developmental disability. Parents are encouraged to become their child's primary teacher and therapist.

Early Head Start and Prevention provide early education, and stimulation to children birth to three years of age, while helping parents become involved as their children's first teachers.

Our Head Start classes, offered in both half-day and full-day sessions, help children between the ages of three and five develop critical skills, which are needed for a lifetime of learning.

El Valor, through a partnership with Action for Children, provides bilingual training and support to day care home providers to prepare them for licensing in Cook County. El Valor also coordinates a network of licensed home care providers who care for children ages birth to five.

In partnership with Boeing, El Valor connects research to practice and implements the latest in early childhood research in our classrooms.

For more information about our children and family programs, please call or visit one of El Valor's Children & Family Centers:

Guadalupe Reyes Children & Family Center
1950 W. 21st Street
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (312) 997-2021

Rey Gonzalez Children & Family Center
3050 E. 92nd Street
Chicago, IL 60617
Phone: (773) 721-9311

Coming soon...the Carlos Cantu Children & Family Center...