Health and Wellness

To address the special health needs of our children and families, Bright Beginnings provides on-site therapeutic services, preventative health screenings and closely monitors the children’s nutrition. Bright Beginnings also coordinates with community partners to provide free vision, dental, lead, speech and hearing screenings twice a year.

In the classrooms children learn the importance of taking care of their bodies, eating well, and getting enough sleep and exercise. Nutritious meals ensure the children receive well-balanced breakfasts, lunches and snacks. Bright Beginnings also realizes healthy parents raise healthy children, and encourages parents to make a commitment to incorporating a healthy lifestyle.

Through workshops, seminars, and cooking demonstrations, families learn realistic ways to improve their health through exercise and nutrition.

Therapeutic Services

Poor nutrition, exposure to violence and the chronic stress of poverty contribute to developmental delays, anxiety, and social withdrawal in homeless children. A team of therapeutic specialists work with children, teachers and parents to provide individual therapy plans, in-service training, classroom interventions and on-going family consultations. Our services include:

• Individual educational assessment and planning to address developmental hurdles;
• Sensorimotor screenings and occupational therapy;
• Psychological screenings and on-site counseling; and
• Play, group, couples, and individual therapy for.