{"id":3698,"date":"2025-12-03T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/?page_id=3698"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:07:33","slug":"head-start-early-head-start","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/?page_id=3698","title":{"rendered":"Head Start \/ Early Head Start"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Head Start and Early Head Start is a national program that is federally funded and administered under the Department of Health and Human Services. The United States Government provides 80% of Head Start\/Early Head Start funding while the remaining 20% must be provided by community sources, ensuring that each Head Start\/Early Head Start Program reflects the strengths, needs, concerns, and cultures of the local community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Head Start Program promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of preschool children three to five years of age in income eligible families in Barbour, Marion, Monongalia, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, and Webster Counties. The North Central WV Community Action Association Head Start\/Early Head Start Program has emerged as a leader in collaboration with County Boards of Education in the implementation of Universal Pre-K education. Offering preschool children the opportunity to receive education in schools in their home attendance areas is one of the major goals of Universal Pre-K. Through partnerships, children and families are able to receive support services such as health, nutrition, and social services. This system enhances parent involvement in their children\u2019s learning and helps them in making progress toward their educational, literacy, and employment goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Early Head Start, offered in many of North Central WV Community Action\u2019s counties including Marion, Preston, Randolph, and Tucker provides Center and Home Based services to prenatal families and families with children ages birth to three, who are income eligible. Early Head Start was initiated in response to the changing needs of families and research indicating the critical importance of the early years to a child\u2019s healthy growth and development. The Early Head Start Program provides and supports comprehensive activities designed to foster this healthy growth and development.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1018,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3698\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncwvcaa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}