The following announcement was broadcast to the community by ABCD Head Start:

Don’t Miss This Opportunity! Call Head Start Today!

Do you have a preschool child who would benefit from an early childhood development program that offers free education, health, social and nutritional services right in your neighborhood? Then ABCD Head Start is for you!

Call 617-348-6272 to find out how to apply to a center near you. ABCD has Head Start Centers serving income-eligible families in every neighborhood of Boston.

ABCD Head Start and Children’s Services offers part or full-day comprehensive early education services to 2,400 income-eligible 2-4-year-olds at 27 neighborhood-based programs throughout Boston. It also serves 200 infants and toddlers at Early Head Start Centers in Dorchester, East Boston and the South End. At Head Start, qualified professionals provide your child with education, health, special education, dental, mental health, social and nutritional services. The full-day, full-year options meet the needs of working parents.

Parents are partners at Head Start. The program emphasizes the active involvement of parents in their children’s early learning experience. Head Start believes that parents are the primary educators of their children. Parents actively participate in the day-to-day operations of the centers and play a significant role in policy-making for the program, including approving staff and budgets.

The federally funded, highly regarded national Head Start program began in 1964 with the mission of providing children from low-income families with the educational, health and social service supports to enter elementary school prepared for success in and out of the classroom.

About ABCD:
ABCD serves more than 100,000 low-income Boston-area residents through its central offices and a decentralized network of Neighborhood Service Centers (NSCs), Head Start centers, Family Planning sites and Foster Grandparent sites. Programs and affiliations include Fuel Assistance; Child Care Services; Head Start; Child Care Choices of Boston; Education; Career Development; Housing and Homelessness Services; Health Services; Family Planning; Urban College of Boston; University High – an Alternative High School; Ostiguy High School for high school students in recovery; Weatherization; Foster Grandparents; Elder Services; Intergenerational Programs; management of the Combined Federal Campaign, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, City of Boston, and Keane Inc. employee giving campaigns; advocacy and consumer services.