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Seattle Public Schools Head Start educates and supports young children and their families to enhance their potential for success as life-long learners! The overall goal of Head Start is to improve students’ social competence and school readiness through commitments to a supportive learning environment for children and families. Head Start supports all aspects of a child’s development, including social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth. Head Start recognizes that children develop in the context of their family’s culture and language. We believe that fostering relationships with the community is important for families and children so that families are respected and their needs met. Head Start is a FREE federally funded child development program for children and their families who qualify.

The Head Start programs in Seattle Public Schools serve three-year and four-year-old children, offering full and part-day programs at various schools in the district. Enrollment is open year-round. Submit an application for your child at any time to get on the waitlist for the next opening in a Head Start classroom. For more information call 206-252-0960, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Seattle Office of Head Start has been closed and all employees there have been placed on leave and notified they’ll be terminated, part of a massive wave of layoffs at the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services. Seattle is home to the Region 10 Office of Head Start, which oversees the preschool program in Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Oregon. Head Start is a federally funded preschool program for low-income children and families, which was established in the 1960s. More than 15,000 Washington children are enrolled in Head Start programs, according to the Washington State Association of Head Start and ECEAP. Although Seattle’s regional office had just six employees, according to the association, it oversees funding, technical help and oversight for more than 70 Head Start grant recipients across the four states. All six employees were placed on administrative leave until June “without any warning” and terminated, the Washington State Association of Head Start and ECEAP said in an announcement Tuesday.

Federal funding cuts to Head Start and SNAP are leaving working families struggling to keep up with childcare and rising food costs. Families and childcare centers said, both programs provide critical support and right now they are bracing for what could be a devastating blow. Lynette Rivers is the Director of Kids Kingdom Academy and Childcare Center in New Orleans. She said, a slash in funding is "a big impact for us and for our families. It's very hurtful to know this." She, along with others, said, cuts to the federal programs are leaving working families behind.

"It's very critical that our children and our families, as well as myself and other childcare centers continue to receive the funding," said Rivers. Nine Michigan Head Start programs — and the nearly 3,000 kids they serve across the state — that were expecting to receive federal funds by Nov. 1 are at risk of losing these dollars if the federal government shutdown continues into next month, according to the executive director of the Michigan Head Start Association, Robin Bozek. Head Start provides free child care and early education to kids living in poverty, while also serving as a coordinator of services, like health care and food access, to their families. Some of the nine programs have said that they are finding ways to temporarily extend their programs through non-federal funding sources. Others say they don’t have that option and will be forced to close their doors after Nov.

1 if grants aren’t disbursed. “The shutdown is pushing programs to a breaking point at a time when children and families can least afford it,” said Michelle LaJoie, executive director at the Alger-Marquette Community Action Board, which provides Head... LaJoie said the Alger-Marquette Community Action Board is using some of the small amount of funding it has to continue its Head Start program through Nov. 14 if needed, but after that it will have to close its doors, laying off the majority of its Head Start staff and stopping those services for kids and families. Please select a zip code, city, or state to search for Head Start Centers.

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