As the Early Head Start manager, Kernan oversees a growing phase of the federally funded Head Start program in this county. Forty families are in Early Head Start, but 147 are on the waiting list. Here's the happy part. You can't help but smile when entering the Early Head Start classrooms in Ocala's Skylark Plaza.
Babies have free range of the place.
You're knee deep in babies. You might find a little one named Jay taking a particular interest in your shoe buckle. Chances are, you'll get crawled on. And there's nothing better than that. Well, Early Head Start needs more volunteers for babies to crawl on.