A recent report from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project has found that children participating in Early Head Start show greater gains in cognitive, language, and social development than do their non-participating peers. Early Head Start also contributed to families becoming healthier and more economically independent through the support services it provides to participants, including more parenting and child development services than are normally accessible to non-participating families. Early Head Start parents were also more likely to be participating in a job-training or education program. The child and family outcomes reported by this evaluation are promising because of their potential impact on children's school readiness through enhanced literacy environments, greater supports for learning, and increased parental knowledge of child development.
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