Community Action Partnership Program and the Dickinson Public School District are partners in providing early childhood special education services at the Early Childhood Center. The Early Childhood Center is also home to the Community Action Partnership Head Start program. Both programs provide early education services for children between the ages of 3-5 years.

Community Action Partnership Head Start Program provides comprehensive child development services and works with families to prepare their children for kindergarten. The Early Childhood Center was founded on the belief that children deserve the opportunity to enter school “ready to learn” and that children’s readiness depends on health and physical development, social and emotional development, language development and communication, cognition and general knowledge, and developing approaches to learning