New Head Start program coming to Molino


  • October 6, 2014
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   early-learning

A new Head Start location is coming to the Molino area.

On Oct. 10, Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry will attend a ribbon cutting for the new center, run  by the Community Action Program at the Molino Community Complex, 6450 Highway 95A.

Head Start and Early Head Start Programs provide comprehensive, developmental services for low-income preschool children ages birth to 5 and support services for their families.

Head Start promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of health, educational, nutritional, social and other services. The cornerstone of the program is parent and community development.

Programs like Head Start are critically important in the Pensacola metro area, where as many as one-third of our children are not prepared for kindergarten.

Last year, only 67 percent of children in Escambia County’s voluntary prekindergarten programs were scored ready to start school. In Santa Rosa County, 81 percent scored ready to begin school.

Early education is increasingly seen as a critical indicator of a child’s success in school, and ultimately in the workforce.

For more information on this event or how to register your child into the Head Start program, call (850) 432-2992 or visit CAPC-Pensacola.org.

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