Bright Beginnings

Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development provides consultative services to Bright Beginnings.

• Bright Beginnings is a Head Start and Early Head Start Program
• in the District of Columbia
• that serves children and their families who are homeless
• full day program year round
• birth to five years of age
• most live in homeless shelters and transitional housing

Georgetown consulting faculty provide:

• formal interdisciplinary evaluations
• classroom observation for individual children and whole classrooms
• standardized developmental screening
• consultation to teachers, social workers, other staff and parents around individual children and families and
• consultation to the director and educational coordinator around programmatic planning
• therapeutic intervention
• workshop series for teachers

The team consists of

• a clinical psychologist
• an occupational therapist