Ohio Heartland CAC Head Start

Ohio Heartland Community Action Commission Head Start is dedicated to providing income eligible children and families with quality, comprehensive, developmentally appropriate programs that strengthen families and promote self-sufficiency. The program operates according to applicable regulations, utilizing trained staff, volunteers, parents and a combination of organizational and community resources in an equitable and creative manner.

Mission Statement:

To serve in an exclusively charitable and educational capacity, as provided in the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended.

In furtherance of its charitable and educational purposes, to foster and promote planning services and developmental efforts for the mobilization and utilization of resources, public and private, including, but not limited to, Boards of Education, governmental agencies, and voluntary citizens groups and associations for coordinated remedial attack upon conditions of poverty affecting the inhabitants of the area.

To stimulate and encourage the provisions of services, assistance, and other activities toward developing employment and economic opportunities, improving human performance, individual and group motivation, productivity, and bettering conditions under which people live, learn, and work.

To solicit, contract for, receive, administer, and disburse any funds, grants, bequests, devises, and other resources for the execution and implementation of specific or general programs in carrying out its purposes, and particularly for participation under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964″ as amended.

For more information, visit www.ohcac.org