Early Education

Tameka Perrien is the first of three generations in her family to attend the Head Start early education program.

There are 28,112 Head Start families with grandparents or other relatives as primary caregivers,” according to the National Head Start Association. Guillermo and Bessy Ulloa are two of these unexpected primary caregivers with a child currently in the Catholic Charities Westside Head Start early education program for low-income families.

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