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2023 PROGRAM OUTCOMES
Early Education and Care
→ Early Head Start Home Educators conducted 3,532 IN- → The HEAD START program was supported by 5 INDIVIDUALS
PERSON VISITS for infants and toddlers, serving a total of 68 providing VOLUNTEER SERVICES throughout the school year,
FAMILIES in 2022-23. including 1 of whom are current or former Head Start/Early
Head Start parents.
→ Head Start served 204 PRESCHOOLERS during the 2022-2023
school year, 104 enrolled in FULL-DAY and 100 in a PART-DAY → Healthy Families of Southern Worcester County (HFSWC)
program, allowing 131 PARENTS to hold EMPLOYMENT with provided a total of 1,481 VIRTUAL HOME VISITS to families
another 35 either in JOB TRAINING or SCHOOL. promoting positive parenting choices and the prevention of
child abuse and neglect to 40 FIRST-TIME PARENTS.
→ 84 PRESCHOOLERS were identified as DUAL LANGUAGE
LEARNERS with one of six languages other than English in use
as the primary language of their family at home.
→ 74 PRESCHOOL CHILDREN ‘GRADUATED’ from WCAC’s Head
Start program ready to enter Kindergarten.
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