Program Details
Parents In Community Action, Inc. (PICA)
Head Start
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.
Additional Information
Also offers parents a number of training programs to help parents learn new skills, gain hands-on work experience and prepare for the future.
Features
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Area Served by County
- Hennepin County
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Payment
- Free / no cost to eligible clients
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Specialization
- Family
- 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.
Application Instructions
- See the website for registration information
- Paper applications are available in Hmong, Somali, Spanish and English.
- An online application in English is available
- For Parent Training Programs, talk to a Parent/Child Advocate
Fee
No cost to participating families
Location
700 Humboldt Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, 55411
Area Served
North Minneapolis
Phone Numbers
- Primary Contact for this program: 612-374-8309
Websites
Other Locations
- Helen H Taylor Early Childhood Development Center 4901 Olson Memorial Hwy, Golden Valley, MN, 55422
- Northeast Neighborhood Early Learning Center 342 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN, 55413
- Park Place 2745 Park Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55407
- Portland Village 1829 Portland Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55404
- Glendale Center 96 Saint Marys Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55414
- McKnight Center 4225 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55409
- Aubrey Della Early Childhood Development Center 6415 Brooklyn Blvd, Brooklyn Center, MN, 55429
- South Branch Early Childhood Development Center 7145 Harriet Ave, Richfield, MN, 55423
- Town Hall Early Childhood Development Center 8500 Zane Ave N, Brooklyn Center, MN, 55443
- Pond Center 9600 3rd Ave S, Bloomington, MN, 55420
- Southwood Early Childhood Development Center 4901 W 112th St, Bloomington, MN, 55437
Other Services at this Location
- Early Head Start 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
Last Update
8/21/2024