Key Points
- Head Start and Early Head Start programs deliver services to low-income children from birth to age 5 years and their families.
- These programs promote school readiness by enhancing the cognitive, physical, behavioral, and social-emotional development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children and families.
FIM Opportunities
Head Start and Early Head Start programs are required to design and implement nutrition services that are culturally and developmentally appropriate and meet the nutritional needs of and accommodate the feeding requirements of each enrolled child, including children with special dietary needs and children with disabilities.
Nutrition services as part of Head Start can be aligned with other community practices in support of broad Food Is Medicine goals.
