The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awards Easterseals affiliate grant funding to expand and serve an additional 316 children and families in Chicago and an additional 73 children and families in Suburban Cook County

All children deserve to start off life with every possible advantage. One of the best advantages children have is early childhood education.

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Provider Riverbend Head Start in Alton, IL, featured by the National CACFP Sponsors Association

Cook Inlet Native Head Start acquires grants and purchases land

National CACFP Week is March 17-22, 2019

Fourteen scholarships are available to attend the National CACFP Sponsors Association Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX, April 19-21, 2018. Deadline to apply is January 24, 2018.

Thirteen scholarships are available to attend the National CACFP Sponsors Association Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, April 18-20, 2017. Deadline to apply is February 1, 2017.

Irma Peña brings 35 years of early child education experience to CCA

Grant increases number of Early Head Start slots, more than doubles funding

Child Care Associates broadens its management team with Head Start/Early Head Start program co-directors

The site - located at www.straffordcap.org - features information about the nonprofit's employment training, nutrition, fuel assistance, head start, childcare, senior transpiration and weatherization programs.

Head Start, the government funded preschool program, has had a rough time lately. In March the Senate rejected HR 1, legislation that would have cut program by nearly $1.1 billion. For now operations continue at 1,600 locations across the nation.

Smart Start, a comprehensive health, nutrition, and education program that funds programs for children ages birth to five in Orange County and across the state, is at risk for severe cuts in funding.