• "Ensuring positive beginnings for all young children and their families."
    Families First of Minnesota is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

    Providing Free or Low Cost Quality Early Learning Services in Olmsted County

    Please fill out the application, electronically sign and date the application and make sure to either upload proof of income in the form areas below where requested OR email proof of all income to: anitah@familiesfirstmn.org

    Applications are also available at www.familiesfirstmn.org

    Alternately, you can Email, Mail or Deliver completed Application and Proof of Income to:
    Families First Head Start
    126 Woodlake DR SE, Rochester, MN 55904
    (A drop box is available and located on the northwest corner of the building for use after office hours.)

    Please keep this page for your reference.
    Income qualifying children and families with the greatest need have the highest priority for enrollment. Placements are made according to child and family needs, parent choice, and available openings. Head Start will do its best to enroll your child, but space is limited. IMPORTANT: We will contact every family who applies for Head Start.
    Please tell us if your phone number or address changes.

    Early Head Start is:

    • For pregnant mothers infants and toddlers under age 3
    • If accepted, this all-year program will be no cost to your family - Available options include:

    Home Based option: Weekly home visits and 2 times per month and Family Engagement Hour
    Center Based option: Monday through Thursday for 6 weeks to 3 years old. Monthly Home Visits
    Child Care Partnerships: Monday through Friday with monthly home visits

    - Eureka Kids

    -Good News Children’s Center
    - First Steps Academy
    - Rochester Alternative Learning Center

    Services provided for children with special needs

    Head Start is:

    • For children who are 3 or 4 on or before September 1, 2023
    • If accepted, this program will be no cost to your family
    • Buses are available to SOME areas
    • Classes runs 4 days per week
    • Services provided for children with special needs

    School Readiness is:

    • For children who are 3 or 4 on or before September 1, 2023
    • If accepted, School Readiness gives your child a scholarship to help pay for a preschool program
    • You will decide which preschool program is right for your family
    • Families drive their child to and from school
    • Classes may run 2, 3, 4 or 5 days per week depending on the school you choose


    If you need help or have questions, please call us:

    English call 507.287.2009
    Español call 507-287-2009
    Arabic and (Soomaaliga) Somali call 507-287-2009
    Toll Free call 1.800.462.1660

  • DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS OF APPLICANTS OF FAMILIES FIRST OF MINNESOTA, INC. 
    EARLY HEAD START AND HEAD START 


    RIGHT TO KEEP INFORMATION ABOUT YOU PRIVATE (DATA PRIVACY)

    Most of the information we collect about you will be classified as private. That means you and the agency collecting the data can see it; others cannot. Occasionally, statistics and other anonymous data will be taken from the information we collect about you or your family. This is public and open to anyone, but it will not identify you in any way.
    In a few cases, information we collect is classified confidential. Confidential data is not open to anyone (not even you) except the government agencies that need it. Data in this category deals with civil or criminal investigation, some medical data, and the names of persons who report child or vulnerable adult abuse.

    PURPOSE OF INFORMATION

    The information you are asked to provide will be used to determine program eligibility, to coordinate services between programs, to verify program services being provided, and to provide us with a mailing list. This list will be used to update you on upcoming programs and program changes and to inform you of eligibility for programs within Families First of Minnesota. Only Head Start or School Readiness Families First staff and funding source employees whose jobs require access to this information, as well as Federal or State Auditors, may have access to your information.

    RIGHT TO ACCESS YOUR RECORDS

    Access by you. You can see all public and private records about yourself and your children. To see your file, call Families First of Minnesota during agency hours and make a request to review your files within five working days by contacting the program from which you are receiving service. Review will take place on site during working hours.

    Access by agency. Employees of this agency will have access to information about you any time their work requires it. By law, some other government and contractor agencies will also have access to certain information about you if they provide a service to you or if they provide a service to this agency that affects you and requires access to your records. They may include school districts, public health, social services and financial assistance.

  • FAMILIES FIRST OF MINNESOTA
    Application for Early Head Start, Head Start in Olmsted County
    2023-24

    126 Woodlake DR SE, Rochester, MN 55904
    Phone (507)287-2009 or 1 (800) 462-1660
    Fax (507) 287-2411
    If you need help, please call us!

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    EHS = Early Head Start (for pregnant mothers and children under age 3)
    HS = Head Start (for children age 3 or 4 on or before Sept. 1, 2023)
    SR = School Readiness (for children age 3 or 4 on or before Sept. 1, 2023)

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