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Migrant head start and migrant early head start - e center's migrant and seasonal head start preschool centers and family child care homes provide quality child care free of cost to low income families that work in agriculture related work. Care is provided to children four weeks to five years of age. Migrant early head start program provided childcare services to infants and toddlers of migrant farm workers and their families in sonoma, lake, sutter, yolo, colusa, glenn, and tehama counties in california. Care is provided to children four weeks to three years of age.

General child care and development program (cctr) -provide age and developmentally appropriate programs designed to facilitae the transition to preschool for 0-36 months children in educational development, health services, social services, nutrional services, parent education and parent participation. Services included age-appropriate, planned, educational activities throughout each program day that addressed all developmental domains contained in cde's drdps. The program serves 1) transitional housing facility in chico, ca (butte county), 2) two stand alone infant/toddler sites: olivehurst (yuba county) and oroville (butte county).

Women, infants and children -women, infants, and children (wic) program provides critical nutrition information, referrals, breast feeding support, and distrbutes food vouchers to clients in lake county, california. The beneficiaries of the wic program are low income pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children at nutritional risk.

Children and adult care food program -e center nourishes children with healthy meals, feeding minds and bodies so that children will be ready to learn and have success in school. The organization works with families to establish the positive nutritional habits and routines learned at school into their daily routines at home in order to prevent and fight conditions such as obesity. Mealtime is used as an opportunity for children to express independence and have positive adult-child interactions. All meals are served family style with the adults role modeling good habits while children are serving themselves and experimenting with a variety of nutritional foods.

Disaster relief assistance -the disaster relief program is a federally funded program addressing the needs of head start families and staff who were affected by the 2017 california wildfires and 2018 camp fire. This program provides support for emergency preparations for sites, mental health and social services for children, families, and staff, and food insecurities of children and families.

Other program activities.

Coronavirus response and relief supplemental appropriations (cssra) -these one-time supplemental funds are utilized for activities pertaining to the prevention, preparation, and/or response to the coronavirus disease (covid-19). American rescue plan (arp):these one-time supplemental funds are utilized for the provision of approved services to further support in-person services for head start children.sutter county internship program (csbg):this program is an internship program to underserved college students who are residents of sutter county. This program offers a variety of career opportunities and interests while developing skills through mentorship.