Partnerships

Head Start and Early Head Start families must meet Federal poverty guidelines and be eligible to receive a child care subsidy. While Head Start/Early Head Start services are free at collaboration sites, there is a fee for child care services. With the child care subsidy, families pay a child care fee based on family size and income. Families not using child care subsidy will pay the child care provider a fee for child care services as determined by the provider's fee schedule.

Collaboration classrooms are partnerships that Champaign County Head Start has with a local school district and child care centers. Collaboration classrooms can be found with Washington Early Childhood and Marilyn Queller Child Care Center in Urbana and at Community Day Care in Champaign.

Champaign County Head Start also has partnerships with five family child care homes in the county. The family child care providers that partner with Head Start are Beth Burr in Sidney; Deloris Lee, Carolyn Smith, Kandy Horton and Nancy Williams in Champaign.