Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Education Services & Child Care provides educational, physical, emotional, and psychological support to help at-risk children and families. We provide services from prenatal to children 5 years of age, empower families, and help alleviate poverty by providing high quality, affordable early childhood education. 

Catholic Charities' Early Childhood Education operates five Head Start and Early Head Start programs across Denver and serves hundreds of children daily with educational, physical, emotional and psychological support. We serve a significant number of children whose families are experiencing homelessness - as well as children in foster care - providing early care and education programs that are lifelines for Colorado families.

We provide more than 600 mental health consultation hours annually for families and connect them with housing, emergency assistance and other important resources. Because of rising food costs and inflationary pressures, our families face significant food insecurity. That makes the 60,000+ meals we provide annually to our early childhood education students and their families critically important.

Statistics according to our 23/24 fiscal year:
• 410 children served with early childhood education, health exams, and other family support services
• 114,000 meals were provided to low-income children in Early Childhood Education
• 120 people in residence at Marisol Homes
• 225,000 nights of shelter provided across our shelters in Denver