About the Program:
Head Start is a free comprehensive developmental preschool program that provides a variety of wrap-around services to approximately 275 low-income children and their families each year. Components of this wraparound include extensive supports in the economic, social, health, nutritional and psychological domains. Parent and family targeted services include: adult education, such as classes on child development; English as a second language (ESOL); case management and economic mobility planning; referrals and assistance coordinating external supports. Head Start serves low-income residents of Somerville and Cambridge.