Edwards Early Education and Community Hope Center
Edwards Early Education Center & Community Hope Center
Located in Northeast Oklahoma City, the Edwards Early Education Center and Community Hope Center opened in 2022.
The Edwards Early Education Center helps young children and their families by providing Early Head Start and Head Start services and extra support for the whole family.
The Edwards Community Hope Center offers affordable and convenient mental health services for individuals, families, and children. It also provides free support for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. This includes connecting them with resources, as well as offering grandparent support groups with free childcare and meals (as available).
The center also hosts community and training events focused on health and well-being.
Parking
Parking is available in front of the center and in the back of the center.
“If you give your best to life, life will give its best to you.”
– Walter James and Frances G. Waldrop Edwards
In partnership with Oklahoma City Public Schools and the Pathway to Greatness Plan, Sunbeam leases the former Edwards Elementary School. A member of the Edwards family also approved the name of the Edwards Early Education and Community Hope Center to continue the legacy and impact of the Edwards Family.
A big thank you to the following donors for generously supporting the $3.1 million campaign for renovations of Edwards EECHC: Arnall Community Fund, The Boeing Company, E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Enterprise Holdings, Nedra Funk, Griffin Media, Inasmuch Foundation,
Oklahoma City Public Schools, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Presbyterian Health Foundation, Sarkeys Foundation, Angela and Pastor Derrick Scobey, Total Environment, United States Department of Health and Human Services: Head Start, and UnitedHealthcare.
“Being at Edwards has already shown me that my child has a deeper potential and that participating in this program will allow him to reach his full potential.”
– Edwards Early Head Start Parent
This website is supported by Grant Number 06CH012537 from the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of Sunbeam and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Head Start.