Head Start is authorized by the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007. Children’s growth and development is supported through individualized early learning experiences, health and nutritional services, and supports for family well-being. Programs tailor their service models to the needs of the local community and to be ethnically, culturally, and linguistically responsive to the families they serve. Children and their families receive services through a variety of models, including center-based, family child care, and home-based (home visiting). Nearly one million children, birth to age five, are currently enrolled in Head Start and Early Head Start. Today, the ACF Office of Head Start oversees approximately 1,600 Head Start and Early Head Start grantees run by local public and private non-profit and for-profit agencies throughout all 50 States, the District of Columbia, six territories, and in tribal and migrant and seasonal farm-working communities. In 1994, the Early Head Start program was established to provide these same comprehensive services to families with low income who have infants and toddlers, as well as pregnant women. Explore other snapshots and the full agenda >Įstablished in 1965, Head Start was designed to promote the school readiness of children, ages three to five, from families with low income by supporting the development of the whole child through high-quality, comprehensive services. The ACF Research and Evaluation Agenda covers research and evaluation activities and plans in Head Start, as well all eight other ACF program areas: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Risk Avoidance, Child Care, Child Support Enforcement, Child Welfare, Health Profession Opportunity Grant, Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood, Home Visiting, and Welfare and Family Self-Sufficiency.
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