What is Head Start?
Mission Statement
Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by
enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the
provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services
to enrolled children and families.
Program Description
The Head Start program provides grants to local public and private
non-profit and for-profit agencies to provide comprehensive child development
services to economically disadvantaged children and families, with a special focus on helping preschoolers develop the early reading and math skills they need to be successful in school.
Head Start also helps parents to become more self-sufficient,
officials say. They, with the governing board and administrative
staff, set policy for their own Head Start programs. Parents
can also earn a GED degree or child development associate
certification by being involved with Head Start.
Funds are granted from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to Wayne County to provide services to 3723 children in Wayne County outside the City of Detroit.
Five agencies in Wayne County have been given the responsibility for the actual operation of the Wayne County Head Start site with oversight by
Wayne County Head Start, a division of Wayne County Health and Human Services.
Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center
Department Organizations...
Cecelia Mobley
Head Start Director
KAY BEARD BUILDING
30712 Michigan Avenue
Westland, MI 48186
1-866-534-KIDS(5437)