The federal Project Grant award for $1,751,956.00, awarded on March 1, 2025 by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Head Start program (CFDA 93.600), supports the Berkshire County Head Start Child Development Program, Inc. in providing comprehensive early childhood education and family support services to low-income children and families in Massachusetts. Berkshire County Head Start Child Development Program, a non-profit organization, utilizes this funding to deliver educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services designed to enhance the cognitive, physical, behavioral, and social-emotional development of young children from disadvantaged backgrounds, in order to promote their school readiness prior to entering kindergarten. The organization also serves as a subrecipient, partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care to offer additional child care, early education, and afterschool assistance to low-income and at-risk families in the state.
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