Program Details
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Head Start - American Indian Families
Program that supports children's growth from ages 3 - 5 through services that support early learning and development, health, and family well-being.
Description
Head Start helps families with young children prepare to succeed in life and school. Programs promote children's development through services that support early learning, health, and family well-being. The program helps with early learning, community resources, health, nutrition and social services while being responsive to ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
Head Start staff actively engage parents, recognizing family participation throughout the program as key to strong child outcomes.
Services may vary in each local community.
Services may include:
- Center based classroom or Family Child Care experiences for children and their families
- Home-based services provided to individual families
- Socialization experiences for children and families
- Leadership, advocacy, and training supports for families
- Coordination with public schools and Early Childhood Special Education
The goal is to deliver services to children and families in core areas of early learning, health, and family well-being while engaging parents as partners as their child's primary teacher.
Local Head Start services are delivered by public and private nonprofit and for-profit agencies supported by local, state, and federal funding.
Features
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Area Served by County
- Carlton County
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Payment
- Free / no cost to eligible clients
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Specialization
- Native American Community
- People with low income
Eligibility
Eligibility guidelines ensure that families with the greatest need are identified and enrolled as soon as possible.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Poverty Guidelines are used to determine income eligibility for participation in Head Start programs. Programs establish selection criteria based on local eligibility factors.
A child is eligible if:
- The family's income is equal to or below the poverty line; or
- The family is eligible for or, in the absence of child care, would be potentially eligible for public assistance; including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) child-only payments; participation in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or
- The child is experiencing homelessness; or
- The child is in foster care. Foster children are eligible regardless of their foster family's income.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Fond du Lac Head Start program is part of the American Indian Alaska Native Programs Branch of Head Start and gives preference to children of American Indian descent.
Fee
No cost to participating families
Location
1720 Big Lake Rd, Cloquet, MN, 55720
Area Served
Fond du Lac Reservation
Phone Numbers
- Primary Contact for this program: 218-878-8107
- Main - Cloquet Community Center: 218-878-7510
- Main - Administration: 218-879-4593
- Toll Free: 800-365-1613
- Main: 218-878-8100
Websites
Other Services at this Location
- Apply for Waiver Programs Accepts applications for Medical Assistance/Medicaid waiver programs
- Community Action Agency Provides programs and services that help individuals and families with low incomes.
- Early Head Start - American Indian Families Program that serves infants and toddlers under the age of 3, and expectant families. Provides intensive, comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families and pregnant women
- Energy Assistance Program Helps renters and homeowners pay their home heating bills and may also assist homeowners to fix or replace their broken furnace
- Job Training Learn how to do the tasks for a type of job
- Local Bus Service Bus transportation within a city, county or region
Last Update
11/12/2024