LHDC offers Early Head Start Center-Based and Home Based services in Crawford, Harrison, Perry, and Spencer Counties. Early Head Start Home Based  is a home-based program that provides services to pregnant women and children 0-36 months once weekly in the home for 90 minutes. Early Head Start Center-Based is a program that offers full day services four days each week in a classroom setting to children 0-36 months. 

Home-Based 
​Weekly home visits are individualized for each family’s needs and child’s interests and developmental stage. 
 
Home Visitors perform developmental screenings and plan educational activities for parents and children to improve school readiness.  
 
Socializations and Family Gatherings provide opportunities for children and parents to interact with peers, participate in activities, and learn new things. 

Center-Based 
Early Head Start Center-Based classrooms are centered on the educational philosophy that children learn best through child-initiated play. Classrooms are child-centered and developmentally based. We provide warm and inviting high quality environments to ensure children feel important, safe, and are ready to learn to foster positive social interactions, creativity, independence, and self-esteem. 

LHDC believes that children learn best when parents are actively engaged, and therefore, parent involvement is an essential element of the program.  

​Transition services help your child enter Head Start or another preschool program. 
​LHDC Head Start provides services to children 3-5. Our educational philosophy is based on the theory that children learn best through child-initiated play. 

Classrooms are child-centered and developmentally based. 

We provide a warm and inviting environment ensuring that children feel important and safe to foster positive social interactions, creativity, independence, and self-esteem. 

We offer materials and experiences that are play-based and child-initiated to develop school readiness skills. 
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​LHDC Head Start believes that children learn best when parents are actively engaged, and therefore, parent involvement is an essential element of the program.
North Crawford
Joan Ritchie Center
508 W. 5th St.
English, IN 47118
Phone: 1-800-467-1435, ext. 343
Harrison Center
1170 Monroe Street
Corydon, IN 47112
Phone: 1-800-467-1435, ext. ​387
North Perry Center
11180 French Ridge Road
Leopold, IN 47551
Phone: 1-800-467-1435, ext. 423

South Perry
​Gary V. Zellers Center
1830 Tell Street
Tell City, IN 47586
Phone: 1-800-467-1435, ext. ​323
South Spencer
Terry Davis Center
501 Washington St.
Rockport, IN 47635
Phone: ​1-800-467-1435, ext. 442
Lincoln Hills Development Corporation
302 Main Street
Tell City, IN 47586
Phone: 1-800-467-1435
​Office Hours: 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
​Monday - Thursday
LHDC provides services to all regardless of age, sex, race, color, religion, disability, veteran status, genetics, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, or familial status. ​The agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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