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Early Head Start: A dynamic new program for infants and toddlers and their families

✍ Scribed by Helen H. Raikes; John M. Love

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
197 KB
Volume
23
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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Abstract

In just 6 years, Early Head Start has grown from 68 initial grantees to some 650 programs and, by early 2001, was serving more than 55,000 families with infants and toddlers throughout the country. With an increasing share of the federal Head Start budget, Early Head Start is an ambitious effort in which the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) is responding to the “quiet crisis” facing infants and toddlers in this country, as identified by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in its 1994 Starting Points. This overview to the special issue of the journal describes the program, its growth, and the changing policy and program environment of its first 5 years; explains how the federal and regional infrastructure supports Early Head Start through training, technical assistance, and monitoring; summarizes the design and conduct of the national evaluation and local research studies; presents the key lessons that the research has yielded so far; and concludes with an assessment of the challenges that lie ahead for creating a solid base of knowledge for programs serving low‐income families with infants and toddlers. ©2002 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health.

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