GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – More than 5 million dollars will go towards Green Bay Area Head Start improvements.
On Wednesday, a check for $5,511,234 dollars was presented.
The money comes in the form of a grant.
“These grants have offered us the opportunity to purchase and renovate our very own headstart school.”
Headstart Director Sally Jansen says that means full day options will be readily available, and it gives a chance to not only add more students but add others to their team.
“Currently, we have 68 staff members in our program and we will be adding another 17 staff.”
Head Start is a federally-funded child development program 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.
The new school means more opportunities for full-day students, which Jansen says is where they want to be as a school.
“They have greater readiness skills for Kindergarten and the outcome is fabulous. From our own program, we have seen the changes that our full day kids make over our double session.”
The District received the first grant of more than 2.5 million dollars in 2017 to purchase and renovate the Head Start Learning Center.
The latest grant of just under 3 million dollars will start the full day rollout at multiple locations.
Full Day Head Start will be offered at Howe, Southwest, Keller and HSLC.
Full day services will be offered to an additional 102 students in September.
