Early Head Start
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Our Mission

Early Head Start (EHS) is a federally funded community-based program for low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women. Its mission is simple:

  • to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, 
  • Early Head Startto enhance the development of very young children, and
  • to promote healthy family functioning.

 

Staff

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , EHS Program Director

Shayla Bryant, Family Support Specialist

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This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Family Support Case Manager

Nancy Narvaez, Education Support Specialist

 

Forms

> For Parents:  Program Registration Application
> For Providers: Contract Provider Application

 

History

In 1994, the Secretary of Health and Human Services formed an Advisory Committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers to design EHS. EHS evolved out of Head Start's long history of providing services to infants and toddlers through Parent and Child Centers, Comprehensive Child Development Centers (CCDPs), Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, and other early child development and family support efforts serving families with very young children. Recent advances in the field of infant development make EHS services so important.

The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA /EHS is a delegate agency of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners Head Start/Early Head Start program. Our goal is to partner with family child care homes throughout specific zip codes in Hillsborough County, and provide full-day, full-year comprehensive services to children and their families, age’s birth to three years.

 

Volunteering - If you are interested in giving your time to support our charitable work, click here.

 

Annual Reports

2010-2011 Annual Report

2009-2010 Annual Report