A Head Start grantee for nearly 25 years, Sheltering Arms offers a full-day, full-year program to accommodate working parents’/guardians’ schedules by providing each child with a multi-faceted early learning experience. Our early learning program reflects all of the positive components we have learned about early childhood education from over 135 years of providing exceptional childcare services. We offer families traditional and blended classroom structures that integrate children from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Our 13 centers located in metro Atlanta offer beautiful facilities with spacious classrooms. Each center has plenty of free parking spaces for parents/guardians for easy drop-off and pick-up. Our classrooms benefit from natural lighting and colorful interior features for an enhanced learning experience.  Surrounding each center are spacious playgrounds, providing each child with ample space to enjoy the outdoors while expanding their developmental skills.

Some of Sheltering Arms’ past recognition with Head Start include being recognized by the National Head Start Association (NHSA) as a Program of Excellence, Head Start’s most prestigious award recognizing program quality and effectiveness. The agency has also had the honor of being named one of NHSA’s Outstanding Grantees of the Year and Model Early Head Start Classroom for the state of Georgia. In this role, Sheltering Arms provides training and technical assistance to other Head Start programs from across the state, helping them to improve the quality of curriculum and teacher interaction for infants and toddlers.