Starting today, March 2, the Head Start\/Early Head Start Program will begin to actively accept applications for school year 2020-2021.<\/p>\n
Head Start\/Early Head Start is a federally-funded pre-school and infant\/toddler program that provides comprehensive services to eligible children and families. The center-based program includes developmentally appropriate learning, family engagement, nutritious meals, health services and support for children with special needs.<\/p>\n
Head Start serves pre-school children ages 3-4 years old on Saipan, Tinian and Rota. Early Head Start serves infants and toddlers age 6 weeks-36 months on Saipan.<\/p>\n
To be considered for an enrollment slot at the opening of the 2020-2021 school year, the initial application period will end on June 19, 2020. Age eligible children on the current school year 2019-2020 waitlist will need to submit an updated application for the new school year. The school (eligible) age cutoff date is Sept. 30, 2020; children who will be 5 years old on or before that date shall register for Kindergarten.<\/p>\n
Recruitment outreach <\/p>\n
The Head Start Program will be conducting recruitment outreach on Saipan at the Nutrition Assistance Program office in As Lito during the March NAP issuance from 7:30am to 10am.<\/p>\n
For information about the application and eligibility process or recruitment outreach opportunities call 323-7446\/664-3761 or email hsehs@cnmipss.org. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting today, March 2, the Head Start\/Early Head Start Program will begin to actively accept…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":308944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1798],"class_list":["post-318357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-early-head-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}