Head Start Employees Report Poor Mental And Physical Health
Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
Head Start, the nation's largest federally funded early childhood education program, which serves nearly one million low-income children, has a problem. Women employed under the program report higher than expected levels of physical and mental health problems, according to scholars who created the first-ever survey conducted on the health of Head Start staff. The anonymous, online survey of staff working in 66 Pennsylvania Head Start programs. Of those who participated in the survey, the researchers focused on 2,122 female respondents, which included managers and classroom teachers of three and four year olds, as well as those making home visits to families of infants and toddlers participating in Early Head Start. read more