Grantee Serving BROOME, NY

OPPORTUNITIES FOR BROOME, INC Head Start

A Head Start grantee operating 4 centers across 4 cities. Each location has its own address and contact information.

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Main Office
5 W. State Street
Binghamton NY 13901
Contact Phone
(607) 772-6810
Locations
4 centers

About This Organization

In 1965, the Office of Economic Opportunity launched Project Head Start as an eight-week summer program. Head Start was part of the War on Poverty, which embodied a basic belief in education as the solution to poverty. Head Start was designed to help break the “cycle of poverty” by providing preschool children of low income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs. At that time, part of the new government thinking on the nature of poverty and the uses of education, and born of the civil-rights movement, was that the government was obligated to help disadvantaged groups in order to compensate for inequality in social or economic conditions. The concept of “maximum feasible participation” represented a new philosophy in federal government that low income people should help plan and run their own programs. Education, child development specialists, community leaders, and parents enthusiastically received Head Start across the nation and recruited children age three to school entry age.
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Who is Eligible?

Head Start generally serves children ages 3 to 5 who meet local eligibility requirements. Pregnant women and children from birth to 3 years of age are eligible for Early Head Start services. Children and families who are homeless, in foster care, or receive TANF or SSI are also eligible for services. Eligibility is determined by Head Start program staff and some families may be eligible for services if they are determined to be at or below the federal poverty level. Some grantees enroll a percentage of children from families with incomes above the Poverty Guidelines as well.

Families are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply

Children between the ages of 3 and 4 whose family’s income falls within our income guidelines. For more information about OFB Head Start, please call (607) 772-6810.

Center Locations

This program can operate more than one physical center. Each location below is its own listing with its own address and contact information.

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