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^ASE FOUR
FHE KiNGb mountain HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, ifSfy H
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Head Start
Program
The comprehensive health and the counties it serves—Watauga,
edu ‘at.onal services required for
all Head Start participants can
not . te curtailed underthig op
tion.
Shifting to homeibased pro-
Avery, Mitchell and Yancey.
Home Star projects using the
homebased option are being op
erated by three Region IV Head
Starts, she said. One is in Ala
(Frditor’s Note: This article is
the second of four dealing with
new federal policies for Head
Start programs. The scries was
p;epareJ b
lute of North
Daiham. Lli\C operates a Head
tart program at its Children’s
liter .n vhven. .oro, and also
i;ro\i{ies training and tcr'hncal
grams. This option Is the most bama, another in Tennessee, and
■namatic departure from the'the third in Franklin, N. C, un-
Uaciitional Head Start
talcs the home for
the setting for most
TheVeteians
Coinei
the army and I plan
law under the “Exfoess Leave
Program.** How do I apply so
that I can receive VA benefits?
A.^ulbmit to the nearest VA
tp study statement of servlc^ ^ti
commanding officer^ '
ADOPTED GHItJD
When an adopted chil4
has -
ii.^flce VA Form 21-£4990, Veter- problems in school or ft. home, ‘
ans’ Application for Program of it’s not because he Is adopted, ac- <
.... «« study of ^
^ ^ * FHitnr’ij MniP- VoiPran^ and f ducation or Training, and VA Cording to a 20-year
art. It substi- der the Macon County Progr*--"® . aS tho^s Fo™ 21-E-1999a, Certificate oflaVnted children,
the center as program. ! their Idmlllcs are ashing thous toeethe* with a children, problems
St activites. Heiuiations for the home- ased ands ot questions conceimng the • 1, ^ Barents’ uobrin®ii
As With all,
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1 Carolina iLlC'JC), narpntc tn moot thp nu- to tran naronts to (?ude thp de-1 vides for’them thiough the Vet-
Stem': from ^
upbringing and..their, i
training parents to meet the nu- to tran parents to gude the de-1 vides for-inem through
trition, education, and health velopment of all ther children, ’ ®r®ns Administration. Below are
needs of their ‘hildron. not just those enrolled in the some representative queries. Ad-
4;stablishing locally design-! Head Start program. ditional information may be .00-
, ed programs. This option
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Dr-RTIALM. — ' Hoad
ruinclu’d in 1965 as an cduca
. on, hoallh, and nutrition pro-
ir ifn f o r povorty-lovel pro-
hoDloi s, is continuing to expand
I its role as a family-oriented ef
fort.
a 60 per
disability
» P®r-I Parent training must include lained at any VA ofice.
SSI. lance to oa Head Start Pro* jg a^y local Head start staff, not only specific iniivdualzed
rams in the arolinas.) | werking with parents and other curriculums, but knowledge ofj Q.—I am receiving
service agencies, to develop a nutrition and the food, health, cenl serv.ro c-onnecled
Start, Start program suited to pS;Chological and social services oompen&ation. I have a wife and
the no'iiliar needs of its com- availaible through Head Start t^vo cnildren. My 17-vear-old
munity and its clientele. The re- and other agencies in the com- child was married in January,
suit may he an all-new aoproach munity. | When will my compensation
ir a specific, s n rh? - purpose Because Head Start programs payments be reduced?
modifi'’ it'on of the standard have been ordered to maintain I A.—At the end of the calendar
program. : current enrollment levels and year in which the child was mar-
Barkara Whitaker, regional Whatc' or option a Ir^al pn- and home - based programs
uo^'ram director for the Office srram selects, it must meet the clearly would require additional! Q- I wasdischarged froni the
of Child Development (OCD) in new. strict pcr-ormance stand- staff, the regulatons suggest arrny in 1963. Do I still have
\ilania said this family orien- ^ris ^’Pd nrovde, in one wav or startng on a modest scale, m- rights under the G. I. bill for a
tation is the major thrust of new another, the comnr-honsive serv- corporating homeibased activities guaranteed home loan?
regulations permitting local Head i:?es that form the backbone of into center based programs. ^ Congress has made
Siai 1 iin.grams to use d.ffeient Head Start. . Mrs. Whitaker sees the trend no shut-off date for such loans.
toward increased parent and In fact, even World War II are
j Foci, r'^opos'd. Mrs. Whitaker whole-family involvement as the atill eligible in some instances.
, said, will get close scrutiny at priost hopeful development on the Full information may be o-b-
OCD is the arm of the Office both regional and national lev- Head Start front. "For me,” she tained from your nearest VA of-
of Human Development, a divi- e>s, and lo':ally des gned pro- child is the medium fice.
•on of the U. S. Department of grams will be reviewed by spe- .fQj. intervention with then entire Q.—I am on active duly with
Health, education, and Welfare cial consultants as well. | family.’* ] - ,
Head cjD’s new regulations sug-!'?^ problems of funding, sponsor- booklet was written by Staff
*cst t'.vo fol’ms lor the varied-and bureaucratic reshuf-^ nriemibers of, the Travel and Pro
attendance option. First, the pre-H^^^R don’t block the way, she motion divisbn and was edited
noproachos in
same serv.cos.
providaig
lIIL'Wi which oversees
Uart. Atlanta is headquarters
nr IirVV’S Region IV, which
:n':br.iccs eight states including
N )i th and South Carolina.
Mrs. Whitaker, in an interview
vih the Learning Institute of
North Carolina ILINC), said the
.U'w CCD legulations allow five
■in:'!():iches to Head Start, call
ed “iirogram options.’’
The first is the standard Head
Start program. Essentially, it is
i fivr-day-a\veek proschiil pri-
barily for economically disad-
vatilagrd children aged 3 to 5. It
.looi may operate m the stand-! Hoad Start can be a ;by piLlicafions editor Charles.
' powerful influence for Improving Heatherly. • |
Copies of the booklet may be
ri tained by writing Travel andj
'Promotion Division, Department'
Next:
ped.
Serving the handicap-
s
a.d w tor tour days a wecK,i-
w.lh the fifth day devoted to quality of family hfe among
activities—slaLf, parent, 4^^
and volunteer training, lor ex-
unip*e; or student field trips; or
jiUif V sits to homes; or small
^.loLip meetings with parents.
Leiond, Head Start may offer
a ‘ spiit-sescion schedule”, enroll
ing two groups of students, wMh
c.>ich group attending classes at
.s ba.'iod at a regular center <1“^ fenlff Hvo days a week. Spe-
virfed by (education, health, nu- se.v ces ctaif training, par-
trition, parents involvement and meet ngs, attention to part*-
.social servires p r oilessionals; <^ular noetls of individual chil-
aad volunteers. shrdiu shrdlw tl'C" ^ (would f.ll the fifth day ,p ,, division.
- iltants- para - professionals and the non attendance days
and volunteers. ' cnroHees. .(Raced on th’s the
Under the new regulations, lo- VVhitaker said demon-,travel and Promotion divisbn
New Travel Boek
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---JU s.u fs rn y propose modify- stration programs are
ns’bg I heir programs in any of.‘- n’ ler way lor some c
has just prblishrd a pnw. 20-
page “See North Carolina” book
let. The publication is a ser es
close to home tours of the
already
proerams in any or. i vvajr -tv;r of the op-
; <% It ”f i'VT v\^ : i tion^. Two such programs, op-
Varying attonrlance pat ! crated in conjunction with reg-
terns. Still cx'nter-basod, this o’v-ular Head Start programs, are Taj- Heel state.
xvo., 1 v.ii I’ •. rMron in tl'c’Hca^i Start and Home Star.
’ I U vrv d s ^ ver'* f>rl lie ilth Start, she sad, services “We think thi.s is an '‘xcellcnt
v:”* hours a day. The time as an example of a locally de-*for North Caroliniars as
:.avi d c'luhi bp used, for exanv signed modi'ficvation. It might f well as ou-of-state v.sitors.”
.. for r're-it-trn n- be in:orpcratod into a iHead'S iil Jtm Hastings, travel and
inr sessions, thus rccognizimj—' Start program in order to c'-iv I ^rrmotion dire-tor. ‘We have
^ c •!) tali/ing on the fact tiiy a particular health pr: lorn, more and more pe^le are
parents ar^' ihe'r children’s such as sickle cell anemia or lead taking the short or mini-vaca-
rinmw f h»-U'Ts poisoning. t ons, and we believe this
- -^-loying double sessions. Four of the Health Start dem- h at e n w il ,:ze a help in this
T'li-: (TUion may be used to in- on;'ration projectsTirp in Region type cf trip.”
pronse the number of children IV, .Mrs. Wbit.’ker said. Two are^ n-bliration conti'ns H
chtldron s<irved. But the regula- in Klorida; one in Charleston, ^^ose'to home tours such as:
f ins proh’ibit using these sepa- ■ and th- other in S^r-e Pine, Lore. Mountain Splen-
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