Federally-funded head start programs help prepare young children from low-income families, ages birth to five
years old, and their parents for the social and educational challenges that young children face as they
develop. Each head start program focuses on providing comprehensive services designed to enhance a child's
emotional, social, cultural, language, reading, mathematics, science, health and nutrition education.
This head start center locator page contains links to listings of programs offered in the 114 counties in the state of Kentucky. Each listings page contains the name, address and contact
information for a specific county's available centers. From that page, use additional links to explore
individual center facts, application instructions and directions.
Our head start center locator features the number of head start centers per county in parentheses ( ) to the
right of the county names. To see a current list of your county's head start centers, click your county's
name.
Blended with KY Preschool Program
•Funded Enrollment: 120
•Grantee: Ashland Independent School District
•Half day services four days per week (M-TH)
•Total Classrooms: 11
•Maximum Student – Adult Ratio:
17 - 3 (majority 4 yr olds) 15 - 3 (majority 3 yr olds)
•Duration: 130 instructional days per calendar year
•Teacher Qualifications:
Masters Degree:3
Bachelors Degree:1
Associates Degree:2
Head Start Preschool*Low income families with household incomes of 130% or below the federal poverty guidelines and children ages 3 or 4 are eligible.
Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs which serve pregnant women and children from birth to five years of age. Head Start/Early Head Start has a long tradition of delivering high quality services designed to foster healthy development in children. To achieve this goal, Head Start/Early Head Start focuses on four major components: Education, Health, Parent Involvement and Social Services.
The Head Start program of the Big Sandy Area Community Action Partnership, along with 6 delegate school systems, serve a total of 1219 children and their families throughout a 5 county area. At least 90% of these children are from low-income families or are eligible under other criteria that Head Start recognizes as being in need. The Big Sandy area has benefited from the Head Start program for over 40 years and children continue to receive a valuable early childhood foundation and school readiness in our 69 center-based and 1 home-based classroom each year
The Blue Grass Head Start Program, promotes early language, literacy and numeracy skills and inspires creativity in the development of preschool children; encourages self confidence and self-sufficiency in families and strengthens partnership with existing community services.
The Bourbon County Preschool Head Start Center provides child care services for children enrolled in the program. The Bourbon County Preschool Head Start child care offers a high quality, developmentally appropriate program. The program adheres to the guidelines set forth by the Department of Health and Human Services and the state licensing board. Our commitment to quality ensures that the needs of the children are met, and policies, procedures and practices.
It is the mission of the Breckinridge County Head Start/Preschool to provide for all children, particularly those from low-income families, a comprehensive program designed to help them deal more effectively with both their present environment, and their later responsibilities in school and life.
Early Head Start and Head Start both have a long history of working with families to meet their needs as the family sees them. This is what makes the program different from daycare or the public school. The Parent Child Center [as the program is known by] has always been a place where families can come for help. The staff is dedicated to listening to a family and helping them to understand what services in the community they may be eligible to receive.
WhoThe Carroll County Head Start program will:What Provide a quality education/ health/ and social services program;WhyTo ensure an opportunity for all preschool aged children;For WhomWho meet Head Start/KERA Preschool guidelines and their families;To develop life skills, self-worth, and a love of learning;HowThrough developmentally-apropriate activities;In a warm, caring, positive environment
The mission of the Central Kentucky Community Action Council Head Start program is to utilize a positive team effort to enhance the lives of Head Start children and their families by supporting and enriching the child’s developmental growth physically, socially, emotionally and intellectually. Recognizing that parents are the primary educators of their children, the program will provide opportunities to enhance their growth and well being by serving as a vehicle to promote self-sufficiency through collaboration with community resources.