Head Start Program in Montgomery County
The Head Start program in Montgomery County as a Social Welfare Agency
General History of Head Start Head Start is a federal funded program that supports school readiness for children from the time they are born, to the age of five from low-income families by expanding their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Head Start is one of the few programs that is still thriving from the 1960s. It is administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and began in the summer of 1965 as part of the Lyndon Johnson administration’s war on poverty. The goal of Head Start is to end generational poverty, by offering preschool education to children from low-income families. “Generational poverty is defined as having been in poverty for at least two generations; however, the patterns begin to surface much sooner than two generations if the family lives with others who are from generational poverty” (Payne, 2006, p.48). Children born to poor and uneducated parents are very likely to fail in school and therefore, fail in life, and the program objective is to end that pattern. The program provides a complete educational plan to fulfill the emotional, social, nutritional and psychological needs of these children (“History of Head Start,” 2011).
History of Head Start in Montgomery County In Montgomery County, Head Start began 40 years ago. It started as a partnership between government (Community Action Agency), which is the grantee and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), which is the delegate. The program in the county is unique, because three and four years old children are served in the school system. MCPS, in partnership with Early Childhood Education, serves younger children in other settings such as daycares, families’ homes, etc. Its uniqueness is based on the excellent focus on education that Montgomery County aims to provide to the students.
In the county, Head Start uses the MCPS curriculum and instructional
General History of Head Start Head Start is a federal funded program that supports school readiness for children from the time they are born, to the age of five from low-income families by expanding their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Head Start is one of the few programs that is still thriving from the 1960s. It is administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and began in the summer of 1965 as part of the Lyndon Johnson administration’s war on poverty. The goal of Head Start is to end generational poverty, by offering preschool education to children from low-income families. “Generational poverty is defined as having been in poverty for at least two generations; however, the patterns begin to surface much sooner than two generations if the family lives with others who are from generational poverty” (Payne, 2006, p.48). Children born to poor and uneducated parents are very likely to fail in school and therefore, fail in life, and the program objective is to end that pattern. The program provides a complete educational plan to fulfill the emotional, social, nutritional and psychological needs of these children (“History of Head Start,” 2011).
History of Head Start in Montgomery County In Montgomery County, Head Start began 40 years ago. It started as a partnership between government (Community Action Agency), which is the grantee and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), which is the delegate. The program in the county is unique, because three and four years old children are served in the school system. MCPS, in partnership with Early Childhood Education, serves younger children in other settings such as daycares, families’ homes, etc. Its uniqueness is based on the excellent focus on education that Montgomery County aims to provide to the students.
In the county, Head Start uses the MCPS curriculum and instructional
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