Welcome to Early Learning Connections! We offer the best in Child Care, Early Head Start (center and home-based), Head Start (center and home-based), and Pre-K Counts Education. Butler County Children's Center, Inc. is a private, non-profit 501(c) (3) United Way Agency and has been a part of Butler County since 1973. Its mission is to provide a variety of children's programs and quality services designed to meet the comprehensive needs of families. As the leading provider of children's programs and quality services to families throughout Butler County, we are able to meet our mission by the programs that we provide: * CHILD CARE (Birth - 12 Years) * HEAD START (3 - 5 Years) * EARLY HEAD START (Birth - 3 Years) * PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN * PRE-K COUNTS (3 - 5 Years) * CHILD CARE INFORMATION SERVICES (CCIS) * CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM (CACFP) The Children's Center provides a menu of programs that empowers and serves children and their parents by focusing on family self sufficiency early childhood education and family and community engagement. As the grantee for the federally funded Head Start and Early Head Start program which is designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children from low income families with a comprehensive program that meets their emotional, social and psychological developmental needs. Early Head Start adds to the good work of Head Start by providing child development and family service support to pregnant women and children up to three years old.