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Denver's Great Kids Head Start








Denver’s Great Kids Head Start provides early childhood education to more than 1,000 preschool children and their families in Denver. Five community-based delegate agencies offer a range of services for children ages 3 to 5 years. These services include:

• Education and early childhood development
• Medical
• Dental
• Mental health and disabilities
• Nutrition
• Parent involvement

Head Start services are responsive to each child’s and family’s developmental strengths and challenges and reflect the rich ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritages present in Denver’s diverse neighborhoods. Enrollment in Head Start is based on income eligibility. DGKHS, a program in the Mayor’s Office for Education and Children, creates partnerships with community organizations around Denver. Our partners include:

• Denver Health
• Mental Health Center of Denver
• Sewall Child Development Center

Contact Information: Denver’s Great Kids Head Start Office 201 W. Colfax Ave. Dept 1107 Denver, Colorado 80202 720-913-0880

"Head Start means opportunity.  It means children’s minds being stimulated to learn, it means helping kids to love learning. "

-Kay Franklin; Denver Great Kids Head Start Chief Fiscal Officer  









"Head Start means empowerment; for both children and their families.  It is a synergy between and among various systems (education, health, family services) where the end result is greater then its’ parts when it comes to impacts on the families we serve. Head Start means quality early education and care for very vulnerable families!"

-Al Martinez; Denver Great Kids Head Start Director   





"Head Start is a vision of hope.  If you rob someone of their hope, you have taken away their most precious possession.  Head Start has always been the promise of a better future for families because Head Start recognizes that children are part of families that need to be strong to raise strong children."

-Kathy Orth; Former Denver Great Kids Head Start Family Services Administrator