Service Delivery Areas

Head Start multi-ethnic classes are held at 66 elementary school sites. These sites are chosen by utilizing the free lunch program data and the HeadStart community assessment. Head Start/Early Head Start classes follow the student 180-day calendar of the Broward County School System. The program opening and closing times are that of each elementary school where the program is housed. The Head Start student day is 6.0 hours, Early HeadStart students attend for 8 hours. After school care is available at the elementary school locations.

Each Head Start classroom of 20 children is staffed by an early childhood
certified teacher in addition to an instructional aide who has minimally completed the required Department of Children and Families 40 hours of training during the initial year of employment and eight hours each year thereafter. Each Early Head Start site serves 40 family units, which include pregnant women and children under the age of three.

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