Pocatello/Chubbuck District #25 Head Start Builds Families
 

 
Because we believe that all children have the right to grow up in safe, healthy, nurturing families that are supported by their communities;
 
Because we insist that all families should have the opportunity to receive support in enhancing the richness of their children’s lives and maximizing achievement of their potentials;
 
Our goal is to promote programs and policies and build sustainable systems that help families enhance the social/emotional and academic development of their children.
  

Head Start is a nation-wide program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families. 

Head Start began providing services nationally in 1965 and is now available to children and families in counties throughout the United States and in some U.S. territories.  Pocatello/Chubbuck Head Start is one of the few programs that has been a part of this national effort right from the beginning. 

The Head Start program provides comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families, with a special focus on helping preschoolers develop the early reading and math skills they need to be successful in school. 

Head Start promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families. Head Start engages parents in their children's learning and helps them in making progress toward their educational, literacy and employment goals.