Holyoke • Chicopee• Springfield Head Start is a multi-service agency, providing comprehensive programs, services and support to local communities, families and children.
HCS Head Start is more than child care. We provide early childhood education, to prepare preschool children for kindergarten, and for life.
We offer traditional part-day early childhood programs at no cost to eligible families. In addition, HCS Head Start offers a full day option for eligible parents working or enrolled at school full time. Fees for the full day option range from sliding scale to full tuition.
We provide family and parent support, and opportunities for families to engage in a child’s education and in the HCS Head Start community.
We also provide family and parent programs including cooking, money management, parenting classes, a healthy relationships program, and more.
Since its inception in 1965, Head Start has improved the lives of more than 32 million children and their families.
I wish that ALL teachers were like the Head Start teachers! Thanks for getting my son prepared for another step in his – and my – life.
COVID-19 UPDATES
All HCS classrooms are currently CLOSED due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please stay in touch with HCS Head Start on our Facebook page, where we will post daily updates, resources and inspirations!
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Launching Educare Springfield
Launching Educare Springfield Program Educare Springfield, the first Educare school in
Janis Santos Receives Awards
Janis Santos Honored Janis Santos, Chief Executive Officer for HCS Head Start,
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Great job Sara! Highlights from today’s end of the year parade @ our MGM Head Start Center. #headstart
HCS Head Start holding parades to celebrate end of school year
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HCS Head Start is hosting several reverse parades for children and families to celebrate the end of the school year starting Wednesday and ending Monday.HCS Head Start holding parades to celebrate end of school year.
HCS Head Start holding parades to celebrate end of school year
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HCS Head Start is hosting several reverse parades for children and families to celebrate the end of the school year starting Wednesday and ending Monday.Parkside Early Learning Center celebrates the end of an unprecedented school year with a Reverse Parade.
Children, families and staff were able to say goodbye to each other for the summer. Check out the story in this weeks issue of The Ludlow Register Have a safe and healthy summer ☀️
MGM Child & Family Head Start Center: Reverse Parade.
Celebrating the end of the year and all of the accomplishments made by the preschoolers.
To our part day families, have a safe and healthy summer!!!! HCS Head Start misses you! 🎈
Resources to help talk to your children about race.
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup — Pretty Good
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Your kids aren’t too young to talk about race. Here are a few resources to get your started.Head Start is the national commitment to give every child,
regardless of circumstances at birth, an opportunity to succeed in school and in life.
In the 50 years since its inception, Head Start has improved the lives of more than 32 million children and their families.
Head Start alumni – or “Head Start babies,” as they often call themselves – are in all walks of the nation’s life.
Educators, doctors, lawyers, military personnel, artists, engineers,
religious and civic leaders, and scientists – from all across the country –
remember Head Start as the place where, at an early age, they acquired a life-long love of learning.
In addition to life and school preparedness, Head Start is also the nation’s laboratory for early learning innovation.
Head Start offers a unique whole child/whole family program design coupled with a
delivery system that includes local programs, national standards, monitoring, professional development,
and family engagement. This has been the basis for many subsequent statewide and community initiatives.