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Early Head Start is a community-based
child-development program for low-income families with infants,
toddlers, and pregnant women. Is mission is simple: to promote
healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of
very young children, and promote healthy family functioning. EHS
evolved out of Head Start's long history of providing services to
infants and toddlers. Recent advances in the field of infant
development makes this an important time for Head Start to expand
to include Early Head Start services.
Early Head Start programs support the physical,
social, emotional, cognitive, and language development of each child.
Parenting education and the support of positive parent-child
relationships are also a cornerstone of the program. |
