Fiscal Year 2001 Discretionary Announcement for Select Areas of Early Head Start; Availability of Funds and Request for Applications

Résumé

The Administration on Children, Youth and Families announces financial assistance to be competitively awarded to local public and local non-profit and for-profit private entities--including Early Head Start and Head Start grantees--to provide child and family development services for low-income families with children under age three and pregnant women. Early Head Start programs provide early, continuous, intensive and comprehensive child development and family support services on a year-round basis to low-income families. The purpose of the Early Head Start program is to enhance children's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development; to support parents' efforts to fulfill their parental roles; and to help parents move toward self- sufficiency. The funds available will be competitively awarded to eligible applicants to operate Early Head Start programs in select service areas. Grants will be competitively awarded to eligible applicants, including current Head Start and Early Head Start grantees, to operate Early Head Start programs in geographic areas currently served by existing Early Head Start research grantees which were first funded in fiscal years 1995 and 1996 a