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Georgia Head Start Association

Georgia Head Start and Early Head Start programs provide comprehensive early childhood and family development services to children from birth to five-years-old, pregnant women and families. Our programs have a long tradition of delivering comprehensive and high quality services designed to foster healthy development in low-income children and their families. Head Start agencies provide a range of individualized services in the areas of education and early childhood development; medical, dental, and mental health; nutrition; parent involvement and family support. In addition, the entire range of Head Start services is responsive and appropriate to each child's and family's developmental, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage and experience.
All Head Start and Early Head Start programs must adhere to federal Program Performance Standards. These standards, which are the most rigorous and comprehensive early childhood program standards in the country, define the services that programs are to provide to the children and families they serve and are designed to ensure that the Head Start goals and objectives are implemented successfully and that all agencies maintain the highest possible quality in the provision of Head Start services

Link to website:  http://www.georgiaheadstart.org/

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On Target for Reading

"On Target for Reading" is a read aloud program that encourages everyone to read aloud to children. The goal is to promote reading to Georgia preschool children. Our target is to read 500,000 books during the eight month program from September 1, 2010 through April 30, 2011.
Everyone from Head Start, Child Care Centers, Family Child Care Programs, Pre-K Centers, parents, staff, grandparents, community volunteers and older children are invited to read aloud books to children then log the information into the GHSA web site at http://georgiaheadstart.org/survey/.

Help Georgia preschool children get "On Target for Reading" by reading aloud to our children! This program is sponsored by the Georgia Head Start Association with funding provided by Target Company Childhood Reading Grant.