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HEAD START PROGRAM Head Start provided 373 children and their families with comprehensive development services, benefiting the entire family unit.

Head Start provides eligible pre-school children with the tools necessary for creating and maintaining a lifelong learning foundation for school and success in life. Head Start promotes school readiness by offering children and families supportive education in language and literacy skills, science and math, cognition and general knowledge, physical development and health, and social and emotional development. Head Start emphasizes the role of the parent as their child’s first and most important teacher. Program staff members build relationships with parents while engaging them to be advocates for their children and family. Comprehensive services to enrolled families also include social, health, nutrition, and support in goal development and implementation. Services are designed to be responsive to each child and family’s ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage.

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