FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES The Family Development Service Area offers an array of social services designed to be responsive to the individualized need of each Head Start child and their family. The Family Service Worker (FSW) will meet and visit with you throughout the school year to offer you the opportunity to participate in a family partnership assessment in order to develop and implement individualized goals for your child and family. The FSW will assist you in obtaining services available through our Head Start Program or will link you to community resources in the following areas: • Basic Needs • Education • Employment • Health • Social Services • Family Crisis • And other services as determined to be necessary by the family’s needs assessment. NUTRITION SERVICES Focuses on modeling - Education, Exercise and Eating Right. EDUCATION Nutrition Services strives to educate our children and their families in making healthy choices by providing resources throughout the school year. EXERCISE Our program integrates exercise into curricular activities like our Head Start and Early Head Start “Get Moving-Start Growing!” Curriculum, with physical activity being one of the four components.
EATING RIGHT As per Head Start Program Performance Standards, we will assure every child is provided with at least one-third to two-thirds of the child’s daily nutritional needs depending on the length of the program day (half-day session/full-day session). Our program complies with Head Start, Child & Adult Care Food Program, Texas Department of Agriculture and United States Department of Agriculture regulations. Accommodations are made for children with special dietary needs such as children with disabilities, food allergies and religious restrictions. PLEASE NOTE: In order to maintain compliance with federal regulations, you must provide a signed medical statement from a United States physician and/or letter from your Pastor, Rabbi, Islamic Center, etc. before modifications/substitutions can be made. Food allergies must also include an “Allergy Action Plan” signed by a United States physician.
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