For Trejsa Stewart, the Head Start program wasn’t just a help, it was vital. Her eldest son had been hurt at a daycare to the point of warranting a Child Protective Services investigation. Head Start helped her find a new place to care for her kids.
“I wouldn’t have gotten through that without the family support. They walked me through the process, and they helped me enroll somewhere safe,” Steward.
Because of the program, she’s gotten help and the needed therapies for two of her children’s learning disabilities that required individualized learning plans. Between those plans, and now a third kid needing daycare while Stewart finishes her graduate degree, she couldn’t afford the care without Head Start…