Early Head Start is a pre-natal / infant-cored program funded by the federal government. The program was formed in 1994 when the Secretary of Health and Human Services created an Advisory Committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers. The committee’s primary function was to design the program.

Early Headstart aims to provide assistance to pregnant women and low-income families with infants and toddlers. The program’s goals revolve around the following:

• To promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women;
• To improve the development of very young children, and;
• To promote healthy family functioning.

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