is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to provide high quality, comprehensive child development and family support services through the involvement of parents, communities and staff. We are currently licensed through the New York State Children of Family Service to provide services to Infants, Toddlers, Pre-school, and School Aged Children. Our program has Head Start classrooms for children ages 3-5 years old which consist of 3 part day double session classrooms, 3 full-day classrooms, and 1 extended day pre-k classroom. In addition we provide private child care services and subsidized child care through the Department of Social Services which includes 2 pre-k classes, 1 infant class, 2 toddler classes and 3 after school classrooms. Head Start is a program of the United States Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Head Start began in 1965 and was later updated by the Head Start Act of 1981, but went through its most intense revisions in its latest re authorization in December of 2007. As of late 2005, more than 22 million pre-school aged children have participated in Head Start. It is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the Social/Emotional, Cognitive, Language and Physical Development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, mental health, and other services to enrolled children and families. It is believed that children who attend Head Start are, relative to their peers who did not, significantly more likely to complete high school, attend college, and are less likely to be booked or charged with a crime.