Other ABCD Services
Head Start and Early Head Start operate under the umbrella of Action for Boston Community Development, the largest non-profit human services agency in New England, Head Start families are eligible to benefit from a wide range of other programs.
Within the Head Start and Early Head Start programs, Family Support Specialists are on hand to help identify and obtain support services and programs for families. These include the following:
- Resources and referrals for job training and education programs, including computer training, ESL classes, and early childhood teaching programs
- Good Guys program that helps fathers and other males to be more active in children’s lives
- Targeted program for homeless children
- Support for parents suffering from a range of physical and mental health issues
- Referrals for assistance programs, such as food stamps, WIC, fuel assistance, and housing.
Helping Families Help Themselves
Referral departments within ABCD that help low-income families:
Child Care Choices of Boston: Child Care Choices of Boston (CCCB) serves as the Child Care Resource and Referral Agency for all of Boston’s neighborhoods. CCCB plays a key role in making childcare work for everyone by providing support, resources, technical assistance, training, and child care expertise to a diverse community of families, child-care providers, employers, and businesses in the Greater Boston area. More than 6,000 low-income families and 8,000 children receive voucher management services that enable these families to have access to needed childcare. Many Head Start children have low-income vouchers that help provide them with full-day and full-year care.
Housing Search for the Homeless.
Tax Assistance Services (During Tax Season)
Citywide Boston Hispanic Center
