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1992.03.10 :  Head Start Transition Grants

Contact: Bill McPherrin (202) 245-2760
March 10, 1992

       HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., today announced the
award of $l8 million in grants to demonstrate strategies for
supporting children and their families as they make the
transition from the Head Start program through kindergarten and
the first three grades of public school.
       The program, Head Start/Public School Early Childhood
Transition Demonstration Projects, will test whether the
provision of continuous, comprehensive services will maintain and
enhance the early benefits attained by Head Start children and
their families, such as:  improved health; better self-esteem;
and higher achievement scores.   
       "President Bush and the nation's governors jointly
established six national education goals, the first of which
stated that all children shall enter school ready to learn by the
year 2000," said Jo Anne B. Barnhart, assistant secretary for
children and families.      "Head Start is one of our most
important tools for helping low-income children achieve school
readiness. But we need to work harder at helping Head Start
graduates progress through kindergarten and elementary school."
       There are 32 projects, composed of Head Start grantees and
public school systems, which will plan, develop and implement a
program of services for low-income elementary school children and
their families, beginning in Head Start and continuing through
kindergarten and the first three grades of public school.

       "Helping Head Start graduates to maintain the gains they
made while in Head Start will require the establishment of strong
working partnerships between Head Start programs and local public
schools," said Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., commissioner of the
Administration on Children, Youth and Families in the
Administration for Children and Families.  "These transition
projects will form community-based consortia to create unified
child and family development programs that provide a continuous
array of comprehensive services, including: appropriate
curriculum; health, mental health and nutritional services;
parenting education and involvement; literacy; and social
services -- especially substance abuse treatment."

       Grant recipients are:

     o    Santa Clara County Office of Education, San Jose,
          Calif.,   $920,000.
     o    Navajo Nation Board of Education, Window Rock, Ariz.,   
             $650,000.
     o    Southwest Human Development, Phoenix, Ariz., $905,185.
     o    Renewal Unlimited, Inc., Baraboo, Wis., $445,841.
     o    Chapel Hill Head Start, Chapel Hill, N.C., $387,603.
     o    New York City Public Schools, Brooklyn, N.Y., $650,000.
     o    Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity,  
          Birmingham, Ala., $890,546.
     o    Cen-Clear Child Service, Inc., Philipsburg, Pa.,
          $6l8,749.
     o    Child Development Council of Franklin, Columbus, Ohio,  
           $650,000.
     o    Hardin County Schools, Savannah, Tenn., $407,192.
     o    St. Paul Public Schools, St. Paul, Minn., $292,934.
     o    Kokomo Center, Kokomo, Ind., $500,000.
     o    Montgomery County Schools, Rockville, Md., $650,000.
     o    Worcester Public Schools, Worcester, Mass., $649,896.
     o    Fairfax County Office for Children, Fairfax, Va., 
          $650,000.
     o    Anchorage School District, Anchorage, Alaska, $320,723.
     o    School District of Independence, Independence, Mo., 
          $445,734.
     o    Albina Ministerial Alliance, Portland, Ore., $553,197. 
     o    Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc., Marshalltown, Iowa,
          $436,743.
     o    Community Service Agency, Reno, Nev., $650,000.
     o    Lincoln Action Program, Inc., Lincoln, Neb., $399,269.
     o    Southwestern Community Action, Huntington, W.Va., 
          $602,627.
     o    Newport Public Schools, Newport, R.I., $650,000.
     o    Muskegon Heights Public Schools, Muskegon Heights,
          Mich., $310,029.
     o    School District No. 300, Carpentersville, Ill.,
          $633,203.
     o    Trenton Board of Education, Trenton, N.J., $598,217.
     o    Human Service Agency, Idaho Falls, Idaho, $339,053.
     o    Dade County Public Schools, Miami, Fla., $624,396.
     o    Area Committee to Improve Opportunities, Athens,  Ga., 
          $650,000.
     o    Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas,      
              $650,000.
     o    Black River Area Development Corp., Pocahontas, Ark., 
          $550,000.
     o    South Central Child Development, Wagner, S.D.,
          $337,586.
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