Kiwanis hear from CEFS at weekly meeting
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TAYLORVILLE — The Taylorville Kiwanis Club heard about how the local Head Start program is helping children and their families at the weekly meeting on Tuesday at the Taylorville Moose Lodge. Macci Lustig is from the Effingham CEFS office. She also administers the Head Start program in several counties, including Christian.
Lustig highlighted how the program is helping some seventeen families with pre-Head Start children. In Taylorville, the head start program is helping 36 children, 20 families in the early schedule, and 19 children in the Head Start program at Pana. Lustig told Kiwanis members that the Head Start program focuses on education and a child’s well-being. The program offers hearing and vision screenings, dental care, and healthy meals. Learning is done both in class and on field trips. She added that 80 percent of the program’s funding comes from the Federal Government. Local donations cover all other expenses.
The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is part of a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world, one child, and one community at a time. Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays at noon at the Taylorville Moose Lodge. For information on the club, go to taylorvillekiwanis.com.