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Assignment 1 Head Start The social welfare policy that I have selected for this assignment is the Head Start Act Sec. 635. [42 U.S.C. 9801], also commonly referred to as Head Start. The Head Start Program can be traced back to 1965 during the Lyndon B. Johnson United States presidential era of the “Great Society” and “War on Poverty”. According to Marx (2011), “Housed in the Office of Economic Opportunity, these CAP agencies were given several objectives: to plan and coordinate local services for the needy, to fund and deliver certain services (e.g., the preschool program, Head Start), and to advocate for the poor. During this period of time, the government decision was influenced by research that indicated connections between poverty and negative impacts on education. On the website for The Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center ECLKC (“About Us”, 2011) identifies the originating purpose of Head Start as “Head Start was designed to help break the cycle of poverty, providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs. A key tenet of the program established that it be culturally responsive to…

On Thursday, September 24, 2015 I went to the Judith P. Hoyer Family Learning Center, a Head Start Early Childhood Program, on 8909 Riggs Road in Adelphi, MD. This learning center is the Central Head Start Office in Prince Georges County. While there, I spoke with Ms. Sandra Kee, the current program supervisor employed under Prince George’s County Public Schools in the Early Childhood Programs department. Head Start is a federally funded agency which began in the summer of 1865 as a part of…

For my public policy, I decided to focus on Head Start. The Head Start Act is a Federal act. It was last reauthorized in December 2007. This act provides funding for private and public non-profit agencies, as well as compensation for educators, research and evaluation of program models, and monitoring activities. The purpose of Head Start programs are to prepare young children (birth to five years) for school. There are four main areas of focus- education, health, parent involvement, and social…

Founded in 1965, the Head Start program was part of President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty. This federally funded program focuses on supporting low-income children in a variety of ways. Their social, emotional, nutritional, psychological and overall health needs are addressed. The purpose is quite literally to give underprivileged children a "head start" so that they will have a better chance of succeeding in school and beyond. Head Start primarily targets preschool children ages 3-5 years,…

poverty children with preschool, Johnson announced the start of Head Start. Poverty research, at the time, indicated that these children could be the key to breaking the poverty cycle. Project Head Start started as an eight-week summer program. The final product was designed to help children of low-income families meet social, emotional, health, and nutritional needs. Over the years, Head Start has evolved in many ways. It was moved from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Office of Child…

Unit 1 Assigment Head Start has influence our history since the beginning the program had help many families. Althoughthe main interest of this program was to help middle class families. The program have progress inhelping people who are immigrating to our country. Many events help improve how the system works.One event that influenced early education was the nursery movement. From all the programs only HeadStartis one that is still active in helping lower class people. Even though the program…

Just as any great structure requires a strong foundation to stand erect hence a person requires a proper foundational education in order to sustain growth within a thriving environment. People of color such as Hispanics are seen in high numbers migrating to states where the farming industry is in need of hard working families to work the fields. This industrious economy attracts Hispanics throughout different seasons which displaces children throughout the school year. The Migrant Head Start…

The Early Head Start program started out as an intended program for preschoolers. Today it consists of three and four-year-old’s and covers more than eighty percent of the kids helped by the Head Start programs every year. The programs encouraged school preparation of kids from ages birth to five years, who come from low-income families. Head Start was formed to assist expectant mothers, babies, as well as toddlers. The program is offered to the families up until the child becomes of age,…

In 1965, “Project Head Start” was launched as an 8 week program serving 561,000 children. Since then, the Head Start program has served more than 27 million children and their families and has become one of the leaders in the field of early childhood education. In 1994, federal policymakers authorized the Early Head Start program to address the needs of children under age 3 and pregnant women. ("Head Start - TN.Gov", 2017) This early education program would respond to Freud’s psychoanalytic…

The topic that I will be discussing is the Head Start program. The Head Start program was developed by President Lyndon B. Johnson it was created to help low- income families. The article states that in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty."The Head Start program was basically a way to help struggling families with their daily living helping with healthcare, education and most of all child development. Neukrug (2017) defines a needs assessment as, “a process for…