Program Details
United Community Action Partnership
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.
Features
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Area Served by County
- Kandiyohi County
- McLeod County
- Meeker County
- Renville 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
- 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.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Available to children who live in Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Redwood and Renville counties
Fee
No cost to participating families
Location
101 Vesta St S, Cosmos, MN, 56228
Area Served
Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, and Renville counties
Phone Numbers
- Primary Contact for this program: 320-235-0850
Websites
Other Locations
- Hutchinson Head Start 900 Lynn Rd SW, Hutchinson, MN, 55350
- Wagner Education Building 307 E 6th St, Litchfield, MN, 55355
- Olivia Center - Bold Schools 701 9th St S, Olivia, MN, 56277
- Creative Kids - Willmar 1234 Kandiyohi Ave SW, Willmar, MN, 56201
- Willmar Head Start 1311 Highway 71 NE, Willmar, MN, 56201
- Prairie Meadows Center 650 County Road 10, Spicer, MN, 56288
- Raymond Head Start 220 Spicer Ave N, Raymond, MN, 56282
- Glencoe Center Head Start 1621 16th St E, Glencoe, MN, 55336
- Reede Gray School 201 McPhail Dr, Redwood Falls, MN, 56283
- Marshall Head Start 1402 S Saratoga St, Marshall, MN, 56258
- Tracy Head Start 310 Pine St, Tracy, MN, 56175
- Mountain Lake Head Start 1005 4th Ave, Mountain Lake, MN, 56159
- Windom Head Start 68 10th St, Windom, MN, 56101
- Jackson Office 115 South Hwy, Jackson, MN, 56143
Other Services at this Location
- Financial Management Education Classes, workshops and information about money management
- Help Paying for Basic Needs Short term help for basic needs like food, shelter and transportation
- Weatherization Assistance Program Helps low-income homeowners and renters to reduce energy costs
Last Update
11/7/2024