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Jasmine had been caring for her daughter full time at home when she began attending the program at one and a half. As Jasmine remembers it, soon after her daughter started, she was playing with a little rubber duck during bathtime,“and all of a sudden, she was just like,“Quack.” I said,“I didn’t teach you that.” I said “Oh, you’re learning at school.” Overtime, Jasminei realized that her daughter was learning more fundamental life skills—how to follow directions, care for herself, and socialize and relate to others. Reflecting on her daughter’s time in Head Start, Jasmine observed,“I don’t think I ever could have taught her what she knows myself.” After all,“there’s so much more” that one-and two-year-olds need to learn than just “your colors, your numbers, your ABCs.”  \nHead Start has been there for families like Jasmine’s for sixty years, nurturing early learning and supporting parents and caregivers of young children in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the country. Mamie Phipps Clark and the other child development experts who conceived of Head Start in 1965 envisioned a comprehensive program that functioned as a counterforce to structural inequality and discrimination, supporting children’s physical health, facilitating their social and emotional development, establishing high expectations—and involving parents at every step along the way.1 That approach has stuck, and shaped the lives of millions of children and families in the decades since.  \nToday, approximately 800,000 children are served by Head Start every year, primarily through preschool programs for three-and four-year-olds, but also through Early Head Start programs for infants, toddlers and expecting families.2 Most Head Start funding supports center-based programs like the one that Jasmine’s daughter attended, but Head Start funding can also support family child care providers who work out of their own homes, as well as parents caring for their own children at home. Increasingly, local communities are using Head Start funding along with other federal, state, and local investments to deliver pre-K to all three-and four-year-olds—blending and braiding funding to ensure universal access and provide home visiting and other wrap around services that are standard features of Head Start to more families.3  \nIn 2024, we conducted qualitative research with parents, caregivers, and child care providers that highlights the critical role that Head Start continues to play in families’ lives. For our research, we interviewed more than 75 people, including 62 parents, grandparents, and other informal caregivers of young children, alongside staff or owners of 13 licensed child care centers (8) and family child care homes (5) . These parents, caregivers, and childcare providers lived in large metropolitan areas, smaller cities, and rural communities in states that have diverse approaches to early learning and care:  \nMassachusetts, New Mexico, and North Carolina. Families used a wide range of care arrangements for their young children. In total, 12 parents and caregivers we interviewed across these three states sent their children to Head Start.  \nThis brief synthesizes the experiences of the 12 families whose children attended Head Start, from  \ni The names in this brief are pseudonyms, to protect the privacy of the individuals we interviewed.  \nCenter for the Study of Social Policy  \nSo Much More ThanABCs: Families’ Experiences with Head Start 1  \nthe perspective of the parents and caregivers we interviewed. Head Start has faced many of the same challenges as the broader sector of early learning and care, but recent political developments rais","cbCaiaYJgTFqfWgR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaYJgTFqfWgR","pdf",857616,"English","# Introduction\n## Families’ Experiences with Head Start\n## Head Start’s Role in Communities\n## Research Methods and Sample Overview\n## Policy Context and Future Concerns","[{\"question\":\"这份简要报告主要关注什么？\",\"answer\":\"报告聚焦12个接受过Head Start的家庭的体验，并结合2024年的定性研究说明Head Start如何支持儿童成长与家庭需求。\"},{\"question\":\"研究使用了哪些参与者与数据来源？\",\"answer\":\"研究在2024年访谈了75人以上，包括62名父母、祖父母及其他非正式照护者，以及13家持证儿童照护机构相关人员。\"},{\"question\":\"报告如何描述Head Start对社区的作用？\",\"answer\":\"报告指出，在资源有限的社区中，Head Start提供免费的早期学习与照护服务，可能也是一些农村或部落社区里唯一可获得的持证选择。\"},{\"question\":\"报告提到了哪些影响未来的风险或政策变化？\",\"answer\":\"报告指出，近期政治发展引发对Head Start未来的担忧，包括拟议取消的保守政策议程、2025年早期联邦资金减少，以及可能限制移民家庭儿童进入项目的通知。\"}]","So Much More ThanABCs - Families’ Experiences with Head Start | PDF",1792046256]