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Over 50 California Organizations Call for State Funding for Head Start

Happy 25th Birthday Early Head Start!

Early Head Start (EHS) is celebrating its 25^th year working with infants, toddlers, and families. Watch this heartwarming video to learn about the impact EHS programs have had on our communities. Through the years, EHS programs have served 3 million children—and counting! #EHS25

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Copperfield’s Books is back in Downtown Napa!

Child Start is partnering with Copperfield Books holiday book drive, please visit their location at 1300 First Street Suite 398 Napa, CA 94558, and support our community.

Child Start, Inc. would like to extend the warmest ‘Thank You’, to The Napa Valley Vintners for their generous support of Child Start’s mission and those of so many of our partner community agencies.  Their generosity makes it possible to provide resources that best serve those in our community. We are proud to be able to provide our future generations with a Head Start!

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Food scarcity may become an issue for families. School Districts in Napa and Solano Counties are providing food distribution points for children of all ages (0-18). Most offer take home breakfast and lunch. Additionally, food banks in both counties remain open.

School District are listed below with direct links to their website for food distribution locations

• Vallejo Unified School District
• Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
• Vacaville Unified School District
• Napa Valley Unified School District
• Travis Unified School District

Solano Food Bank location can be found here

Napa Food Bank location can be found here

Shay Phillips came together with a group of women in our community and started making reusable face coverings to support our teaching staff for Head Start and Early Head Start, contributing to our safe reopening plan. We want to thank them for their support to Child Start and the children and families in our communities.

BID INVITATION

Mandatory Site Bid Walks: Interested contractors must attend at least one of the two scheduled bid walks below.

Project Address: 579 Couch Street, Vallejo CA 94590

Thursday August 13, 2020 @ 3:00 PM
Friday August 14, 2020 @ 10:00 AM

Bid Due Date:
Monday, September 14, 2020 @ 3:00 PM

• Bid Invitation
• Bid Specs
•  Inspection & Testing
• Plan Check Revisions

Napa County Mental Health Services still have programs operating during Shelter at Home order

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Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay at home order for all Californian’s on Thursday, March 19. The order requires all non-essential employees to stay at home effective at midnight, March 19. No end date has been determined at this point.

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Napa County announces Shelter-at-Home order

Napa County Shelter-at-Home FAQs

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In response to recent events, and in an effort to keep our families and staff safe, Child Start has closed all centers and is ceasing home visiting services for the next few weeks. We are continuing to provide limited services to the children and families served by our program.

Closures

At this time, closure dates are in line with school district closure dates as noted below, however conditions are changing rapidly and these dates may change.

• In Napa County:
  • Sites to remain closed through April 10
• In Solano County:
  • Vacaville sites to remain closed through March 27
  • Vallejo sites to remain closed through April 10
  • Fairfield-Suisun sites to remain closed through April 17

General COVID-19 Information

For up-to-date recommendations on safe practices, in relation to the COVID-19 virus, please visit the CDC website.

For local County information, follow these links:

• Napa County
• Solano County

To celebrate Head Start Awareness Month this October, NHSA is catching up with Head Start alumni who are doing amazing work in their fields.

One day this past summer, Tyrone Olverson stumbled upon NHSA’s office. He was in the neighborhood attending a meeting for school superintendents, and he noticed the “National Head Start Association” sign on our building. Being a Head Start alumnus himself — and a curious and ever-eager learner — he came inside to share his story and hear about ours.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When federal officials inspected this city’s Head Start program five years ago, they found moldy classrooms, exposed wires, leaking sewage, a sagging roof and trash-strewn playgrounds littered with safety hazards. A teacher had jerked a student so hard she dislocated the girl’s shoulder.

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One of the United States’ most successful anti-poverty measures starts very early in life: Head Start, a preschool program for disadvantaged kids, increased children’s education and significantly reduced the likelihood of adult poverty, according to a University of Michigan study.

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The U.S. Senate passed its Fiscal Year 2019 funding package for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies. The bill includes a $250 million increase for Head Start in order to meet the rising costs of high-quality services for our nation’s most vulnerable children and their families.

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The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) trade association announced $2.5 million in grant funding for children’s education in Napa County, including $200,000 for Child Start. Helping children enter kindergarten ready to learn, supporting students in achieving academic goals and assisting young people in developing healthy behaviors are just a few of the ways in which this round of donations from the NVV will help Napa County youth thrive in school and in life.

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