Program areas at Umatilla-Morrow Headstart
Early chilhood education program. Federal funds from head start and early head start provide support for umhs delivering early childhood education. Families must meet income guidelines and children must be ages 0-4 before september 1. Services provided include education, health, and nutrition for children and their families. We collaborate with community partners in order to provide the highest level of services to our families and communities. To support our nutirition services we receive usda grants.
Other programs help to support our local families that receive our services. Families must meet income guidelines to qualify for most. These services include parenting classes for adults of children 0-17, court family advocates for foster care children, the wic program, and healthy families program, among others. The goal of these other programs is to supplement and add to the services we provide our communities.
Additional funding for our early childhood education programs include state-funded Oregon prenatal to kindergarten. Families must meet income guidelines and children must be 0-4 before september 1. Services provided include education, health, and nutrition for children and their families. We collaborate with community partners in order to provide the highest level of services to our clients.
Child care resources and referral
Women, infants, and children (wic) is a program that serves pregnant women, a nursing mother up to one year after delivery, or an infant or child up to age three. Participants must meet income and nutritional/medical guidelines. Wic provides nutritious foods, referrals, screenings, nutrition education, and counseling.