Head Start-State Collaboration Office

Head Start is a program serving children ages birth-five that promotes school readiness by providing educational, health, nutrition, social and other services to enrolled children and families.

The Head Start-State Collaboration Office (HSSCO) at DEL helps develop partnerships that benefit low-income families and children in healthy family development. The office coordinates federal, state and local policy to help ensure a unified early care and education system. HSSCO works to coordinate activities with the governor's office, key state agencies, and early childhood agencies, associations and advocacy groups.

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E-mail the Head Start-State Collaboration Office.