Marathon County Child Development Agency, Inc. Head Start

06/11/2026

We have openings for 3 and 4 year olds at all three of our locations. Call today: 715-845-2947 or stop at our NEW wausau office: 500 N 4th Ave, Wausau, WI 54401

06/11/2026

Summer Free Lunches are Back! This year, the Wausau School District and the Wausau/Marathon County Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department will be offering our free lunch program for anyone under the age of 18. This year, we will be serving meals at Marathon Junction in Marathon Park.

05/30/2026

Special thank you to the Music Conservatory for providing musical story time to our students at all three locations

Today marked the final morning for our Musical Storytime program for the 2025-26 school year, and what a morning it was!

To cap off this momentous occasion, we delivered and handed out nearly 200 book bags to students in Marathon County Head Start📖🎶

Musical Storytime at Marathon County Head Start is a free program that presents musical concepts and experiences through five age-appropriate books and explores social-emotional concepts through reading.

We were joined by Representative Patrick Snyder, Tim Parker and Kelly Price from Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, former WCM Executive Director, and Musical Storytime creator, Oliva Hill, WCM board member, Laura Mukerji, and Musical Storytime instructor, Dr. Dana Carlson-Kottke.

Thank you to the Dudley Foundation, Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, B.A. & Esther Greenheck Foundation, Community Arts, and Connexus Association for their unwavering support of this vital program for the 2025-26 school year!

If you'd like to donate to this program, please visit wausauconservatory.org/give

If your business is interested in sponsoring Musical Storytime for the 2026-27 school year, please contact WCM Executive Director, Susan Bender, at 715-845-6279 Ext. 105 or [email protected]

05/19/2026

Our Head Start just celebrated 60 years of providing quality care and service to our children and their families!

The data says "evidence-based outcomes."

You call it Tuesday. You call it showing up when it's hard. You call it believing a 4-year-old can go further than anyone expected—and proving it.

61 years of Head Start. Happy birthday to the people who make it real.

05/08/2026

Come look for head start at the children’s festival on Saturday, May 9 from 9-3 at Marathon Park

🎉 TOMORROW is the day! 🎉
The 52nd Annual Children's Festival takes over Marathon Park THIS Saturday, May 9th, from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM at the MPB Building (Ice Rinks) at Marathon Park!

Check out the event map below for parking locations and where all the fun will be happening! 🚗🗺️

We have an AMAZING day planned for families, including:
🎪 46 community booths
🛍️ 20 Kid Vendor Booths at the Children’s Business Fair
🏰 Bounce Houses
🎾 Skills drills from Wisconsin Tennis Association
🪄 Magician performances
🎶 Live musical acts
🌮 4 delicious food trucks
🐐 Petting Zoo
🚒 Fire Department displays
💣 Bomb Squad demonstrations
…and so much more!

💛 Don’t forget to bring CASH and maybe even some spare change from your change jars to support Peyton's Promise “Change for Good” Drive! Every donation helps make a difference, and Peoples State Bank will MATCH the first $1,000 donated!

A HUGE thank you to our Title Sponsor, First Impressions Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, for presenting this incredible community event!
Additional thanks to our amazing sponsors, Festival Foods and Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, for helping make this day possible.

We can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow for one of the biggest family events of the year! 🎉

04/30/2026

Wheels on the Bus with Randy Peterson

04/30/2026

Thank you to Randy Peterson, Caked It and Ace Hardware Kids Club for helping make our 60th birthday party a success

04/29/2026

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01/23/2026

We will be closed Friday, January 23 due to extremely cold weather conditions

01/14/2026

See you this Saturday for an amazing family/friendly event with Through A New Lens! - Belky Radio