Northside Head Start
147 North Adams
Jerome, Idaho 83338
The North Side Head Start is a federally funded social service program set up to assist low income families and children, and to alleviate the effects of poverty. The program was founded in 1965 by then President Lyndon Johnson, and this service program has been helping families in Jerome since 1967. Today North Side Head Start serves 81 families, and Early Head Start serves 24 families in the greater Jerome area. North Side Head Start currently employs 14 full and part-time employees, and welcomes volunteers to help assist, once they are accepted through the application and screening process.
North Side Head Start offers a Pre-school Program for children whose family would qualify to participate in the program, and they also have a Home Visit program, where workers go into the homes of those who qualify to offer assistance to parents in which they help to set goals for both the parents and the kids. The program is set up to help reach the children of low income families at an early age, to prepare them for school..
Recently North Side Head Start was awarded a large sum of money through the College of Southern Idaho to assist with the construction of a new Center in Jerome. The building itself will be owned by the College of Southern Idaho, and North Side Head Start will lease the building from the College until it is paid off . While a building site has not yet been determined, North Side Head Start is very excited with the prospect of moving into a new building sometime in 2012.
