Early Head Start and Head Start - United Community Action Partnership
Resource Name:Early Head Start and Head Start - United Community Action Partnership
address
1400 South Saratoga Street, Marshall, MN 56258
Eligibility
- Early Head Start serves pregnant mothers and families with infants and toddlers ages birth to 2
- Head Start serves children who are ages 3 and 4 and their families who meet income guidelines
- Residents of Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Redwood, and Renville counties
Required documents
- Application/registration form
- 12 months of income is needed which could be provided by Minnesota Family Investment Program documentation, Supplemental Security Income documentation, pay stubs, tax returns, or W-2s
Hours
Application process
Fees
Service area
Early Head Start provides a home-based option for families, while Head Start takes place in a classroom setting. Activities planned for children are designed to prepare them for Kindergarten. Services typically include:
- Weekly one hour home visits for Early Head Start. Head Start classes are held four to five days a week, three and a half hours per day.
- Cognitive/Early Math: Children learn to county, describe shapes, measure, and create patterns
- Different Approaches to Learning: Children learn to complete work, show creativity, and develop interest about learning
- Language/Literacy: Children increase vocabulary, use full sentences in conversations, rhyme words, gain knowledge of the alphabet, use books, and learn to write their name
- Physical Development: Children learn to balance and control large muscles to ride trikes, climb, and run with coordination. Children will use small muscles to write and draw.
- Socialization: Child and families with infants and toddlers participate in a socialization experience facilitated by the home visitor
- Transportation: Provides transportation to families who reside in the cities of Jackson, Marshall, Mountain Lake, Redwood Falls, and Tracy
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What's Here
Providing organization
Community action agency providing programs such as affordable housing, child development, emergency financial assistance for rent/mortgage, homeless shelter, basic needs, transportation, and weatherization to nine counties across southwest Minnesota