“Because We Care” food boxes given out to HCDE Head Start families in Baytown via drive-through event

J.D. Walker Head Start Center, 7613-A Wade Road, Baytown, TX 77521

Who: Head Start families from area centers in Baytown gain a second round of care boxes as they drive by in their vehicles. Parents from J.D. Walker, Baytown Head Start and Let’s Learn (Early Head Start childcare partner) are included in this distribution. More distributions are being planned at additional locations.

The HCDE Board approved the care package program through an emergency board meeting in March, appropriating $250,000 in funding for food for Head Start families. To date, approximately 5,800 meals have been provided to our Head Start families. A second round of food distribution continues to benefit our 1,350 Head Start families.

Food was purchased through Choice Partners, HCDE’s purchasing cooperative which supplies one million meals for Harris County students yearly.

(Care packages will be given to families enrolled in HCDE Head Start programs from designated centers, not the general public. Families have already been selected by geographic location and notified about the giveaways by HCDE personnel.)

About Harris County Department of Education: HCDE is a unique, educational hybrid serving school districts, governmental agencies, nonprofits and the public in the third-largest county in the U.S. HCDE annually serves a quarter-million students and educators through schools for students with profound special needs; the largest adult education program in Texas; Head Start early childhood education; school-based therapy services; and afterschool programs. Educator professional development and certification, school safety, records management, and a purchasing cooperative are also provided. #SeeTheImpact at www.hcde-texas.org.