A CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

• First launched as an eight-week summer program in 1965, and was designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children from low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social health, and psychological needs.
   
• Emphasizes child-initiated activities by providing materials, equipment and trained staff to assist in creative growth.
   
• Has four major components:
  1. Education
  2. Health
  3. Parent Involvement
  4. Social Services
   
• Depends on community volunteers in all aspects of the Head Start Program.
   

• All Head Start children will receive a backpack on the first full day of school.

Our Head Start locations throughout Butler County