Program Details
Wright County Community Action Agency, LLC
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
- Wright 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
- Children and/or youth with disabilities
- Disabilities
- 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: Must be a resident of Wright County or some cities in western Hennepin County: Annandale, Buffalo, Corcoran, Dayton, Delano, Greenfield, Hanover, Hassan, Howard Lake, Independence, Long Lake, Loretto, Maple Plain, Medina, Minnetonka Beach, Minnetrista, Monticello, Montrose, Mound, Orono, Rogers, St. Bonifacius, or Spring Park.
Serves all children, including those with any health, developmental, or nutritional needs
Application Instructions
Fee
No cost to participating families
Location
115 2nd St S, Montrose, MN, 55363
Area Served
Wright County
Phone Numbers
- Primary Contact for this program: 320-963-6500
Websites
Other Locations
- Light of Christ Lutheran Church 3976 County Line Rd SE, Delano, MN, 55328
- St. John's Lutheran Church - Howard Lake 625 12th Ave S, Howard Lake, MN, 55349
- Wright Technical Center 1405 3rd Ave NE, Buffalo, MN, 55313
- East View Elementary Building 9375 Fenning Ave NE, Monticello, MN, 55362
- Annandale Head Start 250 Oak Ave N, Annandale, MN, 55302
Last Update
8/20/2024