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
- Cottonwood County
- Jackson 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
115 South Hwy, Jackson, MN, 56143
Area Served
Jackson County and surrounding counties
Phone Numbers
- Primary Contact for this program: 320-235-0850
- Main: 507-847-2632
Websites
Other Locations
- Windom Head Start 68 10th St, Windom, MN, 56101
- Mountain Lake Head Start 1005 4th Ave, Mountain Lake, MN, 56159
- Tracy Head Start 310 Pine St, Tracy, MN, 56175
- Reede Gray School 201 McPhail Dr, Redwood Falls, MN, 56283
- Marshall Head Start 1402 S Saratoga St, Marshall, MN, 56258
- Olivia Center - Bold Schools 701 9th St S, Olivia, MN, 56277
- Glencoe Center Head Start 1621 16th St E, Glencoe, MN, 55336
- Cosmos Office 101 Vesta St S, Cosmos, MN, 56228
- Hutchinson Head Start 900 Lynn Rd SW, Hutchinson, MN, 55350
- Raymond Head Start 220 Spicer Ave N, Raymond, MN, 56282
- Creative Kids - Willmar 1234 Kandiyohi Ave SW, Willmar, MN, 56201
- Willmar Head Start 1311 Highway 71 NE, Willmar, MN, 56201
- Wagner Education Building 307 E 6th St, Litchfield, MN, 55355
- Prairie Meadows Center 650 County Road 10, Spicer, MN, 56288
Other Services at this Location
- Energy Assistance Program Helps renters and homeowners pay their home heating bills and may also assist homeowners to fix or replace their broken furnace
- Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program (FHPAP) Short-term help for low-income families, youth and single adults who are homeless or are about to become homeless
- Financial Management Education Classes, workshops and information about money management
- Foreclosure Prevention Assistance Program Access to community resources and financial assistance; debt management and repayment programs; financial counseling
- Help Paying for Basic Needs Short term help for basic needs like food, shelter and transportation
- Home Repair Financial Assistance - Rehabilitation Loan Program Loans to eligible homeowners to increase the accessibility of their house or make needed fixes
- Transportation - Dial-a-Ride Program that provides rides for people in the community
- Weatherization Assistance Program Helps low-income homeowners and renters to reduce energy costs
Last Update
8/22/2024