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Families in Raleigh County may soon have more access to early childhood education resources.
That’s because the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday it would provide more than $1.3 million to the southern county’s Head Start program.
Head Start is a federally funded program that provides education, health and nutrition resources to youth, as well as parental resources to their caretakers.
Head Start programs operate across the United States with federal funding but are typically managed on the county or local level. Children can participate in the program for free until age 5.
Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., said in a Tuesday press release that the new funding would help ensure all children in the Mountain State, “no matter their background,” have access to a “quality education.”
The new funds mark a continued effort on the federal level to support early childhood education programs in West Virginia. Last month, another Head Start program in Mercer County was granted $4.7 million in federal dollars.
