Program Details
Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc.
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
- Both center-based and home-based services are provided.
- Migrant and Seasonal Head Start is available for families that are low-income and earn the majority of their income from agricultural and harvesting work.
Features
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Area Served by County
- Wabasha County
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Organization Type
- Community Action Partnership
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Payment
- Free / no cost to eligible clients
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Specialization
- 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.
Fee
No cost to participating families
Location
52497 275th Ave, Elgin, MN, 55932
Area Served
Wabasha County
Phone Numbers
- Primary Contact for this program: 218-281-5832
Websites
Other Locations
- Owatonna Head Start 565 20th St NE, Owatonna, MN, 55060
- Elysian Head Start Call for Location
- Bethel Head Start 23820 Dewey St NW, Bethel, MN, 55005
- Winnebago Head Start 100 1st Ave NE, Winnebago, MN, 56098
- Glencoe Head Start 1828 Knight Ave N, Glencoe, MN, 55336
- Monticello Head Start 108 Thomas Cir, Monticello, MN, 55362
- Sleepy Eye Head Start 500 4th Ave SW, Sleepy Eye, MN, 56085
- St. Cloud Head Start 930 31st Ave N, St. Cloud, MN, 56303
- Danube Head Start 100 Main St, Danube, MN, 56230
- Breckenridge Head Start 810 Beede Ave, Breckenridge, MN, 56520
- Ada Head Start 604 W Thorpe Ave, Ada, MN, 56510
- Crookston Family Service Center 1407 Erskine St, Crookston, MN, 56716
- East Grand Forks Head Start 1825 Central Ave NW, East Grand Forks, MN, 56721
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
8/25/2024