Services are provided through school-based programs and under contracts with Head Start and other local preschool programs. These programs are all operated during the migrant season in five sites. Any child of a migrant family is eligible for this program. The State Department of Human Services, which administers the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant, contracts with the Department of Education to subgrant early childhood care and education programs for infants and preschool age children. More than 20,000 children have been and are being served in 180 sites.
Children are eligible on the basis of family income.
The purpose of Even Start is to help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving education opportunities for low-income families with limited education. I is the largest federally funded program designed to provide educational services for elementary and secondary students. During 1999-2000, there were eleven fully funded Even Start programs in Colorado.