About ABCD Head Start

ABCD Head Start and Children's Services is a comprehensive family development program that serves pregnant women, children from birth to age five, and their families. Our child-focused programs are committed to providing opportunities and services to the diverse, low-income children and families of Boston. We support these children and families to achieve:

• School readiness
• Self-sufficiency
• Success in life.

A History of Compassion

Both Head Start and ABCD have a long history of serving families in Boston with programs to improve and enrich their lives and wellbeing. ABCD was incorporated in 1962, prior to the national War on Poverty, as a "Gray Areas Project." Its original mandate, which holds true to this day, is to promote self-help for people and neighborhoods. Today, ABCD is known as Boston's anti-poverty agency, and is the largest independent, private, 501(c)3 non-profit human services agency in New England. ABCD emphasizes the empowerment of low-income people and communities as the most effective means of promoting economic success. ABCD focuses on prevention, rather than crisis management, and builds on individual and community strengths.

Because we are locally administered by Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), which serves more than 100,000 low-income Greater Boston residents, the families of children enrolled in Head Start gain access to ABCD services, such as housing, food and fuel assistance, and education and training programs. We work together to give your child a Head Start.