The Head Start and Early Head Start programs are back to modified in-person classes, as well as available remote learning, in six classrooms available in Knox, Warren, and Henderson counties for children under the age of five years old. Executive Director Mary Reed shares the services that will be provided to the children:
“The kids will be fed well. If they are in the morning class they will get breakfast and lunch, and if they are in the afternoon class they get lunch and snack, and if they are in the all-day classroom they will get all of the above! And also, one big piece of Head Start is, in order for a child to learn, they need to be healthy. So we look at the whole family, the whole child, physicals and dentals—our requirements and we assist families with that. We have advocates that are assigned a case load of families, and they can navigate them and help them in any way.”
Door-to-door bussing will also be provided with shields in between the seats and green sheets that allow the child to be placed on specific busses for safety precautions. To register your child for next year’s program, check out their website at wccsheadstart.org or visit their office in Monmouth on Euclid Avenue.
