Head Start/Early Head Start Fall Registration Opens Jan. 26

By Holland Doran

| LITTLE ROCK — The Head Start /Early Head Start Program in Pulaski County, operated by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), is accepting applications beginning Jan. 26 for the 2015-2016 school year.

Early Head Start accepts infants and toddlers age 6 weeks to 35 weeks and Head Start accepts children ages 3 and 4. Applications are available at any of the area Head Start Centers in Pulaski County.

The application is accessible online at www.arpediatrics.org/headstart. Parents also may register at the Head Start Central Office, 7415 Colonel Glenn in Little Rock, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Head Start/Early Head Start accepts children without regard to race, sex, creed, color, religion, national origin, or disabling condition. Ten percent of the program’s spaces are reserved for children with special needs. For more information, call the Head Start Office at 570-5000.

UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,485 students, 915 medical residents and fellows, and seven dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.

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