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Title: Supporting Our Youngest Children: Early Head Start Programs in 2010

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Since 1965, Head Start has provided high quality early education and comprehensive support services to the nation’s poorest children from ages 3 through school age. In 1994, the federal Early Head Start (EHS) program was created to address the comprehensive needs of poor children under age 3 and pregnant women. In addition to early learning opportunities, Head Start and Early Head Start’s comprehensive early childhood development programs provide children and families with access to a range of services such as health screenings, referrals and follow-up support, parenting resources, and social services. Programs emphasize the importance of parental involvement and staff work to cultivate parents’ abilities as their children’s first teachers.

Url: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED538041.pdf

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Authors: Schmit, Stephanie; Ewen, Danielle

Publisher: CLASP

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other

Countries: United States