New Federal Appropriation of $27 Million for Head Start

Press Release

The federal program of primary learning and knowledge centers, better known as Head Start, will receive a new request for funds for Puerto Rico totaling $27,449,708, informed the resident commissioner, Jenniffer González Colón.

The Head Start Office of the Administration for Families and Children, attached to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), obtained $23,072,407 for the Department of the Family and $4,377,301 for the Municipality of Guaynabo for Head Start programs and Early Head Start.

Congress appropriates nearly $10 billion annually for Head Start and Early Head Start centers around the nation that are managed by 1,600 entities.

Head Start centers were designed to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children from low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and educational needs.

A key principle of the program is that it is culturally responsive to the communities it serves, and that communities are invested in its success through the contribution of volunteer hours and other donations as non-federal share.

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