Head Start is a federal program that promotes the school readiness of children ages birth to five from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Muskingum County Head Start serves children ages three to five years of age.

Head Start programs provide a learning environment that supports children’s growth in the following domains: language and literacy; cognition and general knowledge; physical development and health; social and emotional development; and approaches to learning.

Head Start programs provide comprehensive services to enrolled children and their families, which include health, nutrition, social, and other services determined to be necessary by family needs assessments, in addition to education and cognitive development services. Head Start services are designed to be responsive to each child and family’s ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage.

For more information on Head Start you may want to visit these websites by clicking on the name of the organization below:

Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center — eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov

Ohio Head Start Association

National Head Start Association

“Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start helps every child reach their potential.”

“Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.”

“Head Start program has a dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children’s lives.”