Created in 1964, Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Head Start and Early Head Start now serve more than 900,000 children each year, from birth to age five, in 48,000 classrooms around the United States. Because recent statistics show that up to 48 percent of Early Head Start mothers are depressed, and that there are harmful affects of parental depression on young children, Family Connections strives to support parents and Head Start staff in the face of depression and other adversities.
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