About this PreSchool

Location: Bethel County AK

The purpose of Head Start is to help break the cycle of poverty by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs.

To be eligibleChildren between the ages of three and five from

• low-income families
• Foster children
• Homeless children
• Children with special needs
• All other children who fall between the age requirements are eligible.

Entry is based on a tally for an enrollment point system.

Children and families who are enrolled in the Head Start Program in

• Akiachak
• Bethel
• Chefornak
• Kotlik
• Nightmute
• Quinhagak
• Russian Mission
• Scammon Bay
• Tuntutuliak
• Tuluksak
• Tununak

Mission Statement*

Provides Human Development, Social Services, and other culturally relevant programs for the people, to promote self-determination, protection and enhancement of our culture and traditions through a working partnership with member villages of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. * source:http://www.avcp.org/services/head-start/