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Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) Head Start & Children’s Services is an early education program committed to providing high quality comprehensive services to Greater Boston’s children and families for 60 years. ABCD is a nonprofit human services organization that provides low-income residents of the Greater Boston region with the tools and resources needed to transition from poverty to stability and from stability to success. As one of the original 1965 Head Start demonstration projects, our Head Start & Children’s Services program has grown to include multiple grants through center-based and family child care options across the Boston and Mystic Valley communities.
Head Start is a family development program that offers comprehensive services for your child as well as your entire family. Part of a highly successful national program, ABCD Head Start has locations throughout Boston, Everett, Malden, and Medford. Our services concentrate on your child’s education, nutrition, and physical and mental health.
With input from you, our programs are designed to meet your child’s individual needs while respecting and reflecting your community’s ethnic and cultural values. Classroom curriculum builds on the interests of your child and offers a variety of intentional learning opportunities. These include “family style” nutritional meal times filled with conversation, social interaction and introductions to new foods.
We also provide you and your child opportunities to learn about healthy living. Each child receives annual hearing, vision and nutrition screenings, along with services, referrals and resources to support their health when needed.
Early Head Start works with pregnant women, infants and toddlers to ensure that very young children get the care and stimulation proven by research to aid brain development in the earliest years.
Head Start & Early Head Start also feature intensive parent engagement that gives mothers and fathers extensive support opportunities to move up the economic ladder. Your active involvement is an essential part of our program because you are your child’s primary teacher. Our family service staff works in partnership with you to achieve the goals you wish for your child and to support their learning and healthy development. You’ll have opportunities to connect with other parents and your community by assisting in program planning, design, feedback, volunteering in the classroom and extending the learning environment into your home.
