Health & Disabilities Services in Early Head Start

August, 2004 Health and Disabilities Services in Early Head Start: Are Families Getting Needed Health Care Services? Prepared by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ Under Contract DHHS-105-95-1936 Authors: Ellen Eliason Kisker, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Carole Kuhns, Virginia Tech In 1995, a new federal initiative aimed at enhancing the development of infants and toddlers began with 68 grantees. This program, named Early Head Start by the Secretary's Advisory Committee that created it, has grown into a national initiative with more than 700 grantees serving more than 55,000 families around the country. Seventeen of the . . .