Report on Head Start Program Growing Despite Financial Problems at C.A.I. (1977)
WBRZ-TV Channel 2 Baton Rouge Collection
Details
Collection:LSA
Genre: News
Place Covered: Louisiana General, 1970s
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Department of State
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Subjects: WBRZ-TV (Television station : Baton Rouge, La.) | Community Advancement, Inc. | Head Start Program (U.S.) | Federal aid to education | Public welfare | Subsidies | United States. Department of Health and Human Services
Description
A WBRZ-TV Channel 2 Eyewitness news story from Elizabeth Curren on Head Start, one of thirty anti-poverty services operated by Community Advancement, Inc., C.A.I., initiating a parish-wide recruitment effort. This program, designed to help low-income and disadvantaged preschool children in their social and educational development, received $1,000,000 in federal funds from the U.S. Welfare Department yearly, funneled through C.A.I. Despite C.A.I.’s financial problems and the risk it may lose its official anti-poverty designation, these services continue to operate and grow. Airdate: June 1977