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About Mid Florida Community Services, Inc. Head Start/Early Head Start

Location:

803 South Woodland Blvd, Deland, FL 32720, US

Mission Statement

To provide, comprehensive early childhood services that enhance the lives of children and families to collaboratively foster school readiness and self-sufficiency.

Description

Head Start/Early Head Start is a nationwide, federally funded program whose purpose is to promote school readiness by enhancing the social, physical, and cognitive development of children. Head Start is provided at no cost to eligible families and accepts children age’s three years old to five years old.

Early Head Start provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families, and pregnant women and their families. MFCS Early Head Start serves 112 children across Hernando and Volusia Counties. Early Head Start programs serve families through a full day, full year program, MFCS Early Head Start is Center-Based and provides early learning, care and enrichment experiences to children in an early care and education setting. Staff members also visit family homes at least twice per year.