Head Start staff make home visits, especially to the homes of parents with newborns.

Staff work hard to promote the mental health of each child and family ... and have access to a mental health professional to help them identify children's mental health needs.

Earlier this year, we began the process of consolidation of operations. Classrooms and offices formerly located at the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency and the Roosevelt Plaza in Ironwood and Father Daniel Hall in Wakefield have been moved. Consolidation allows for continuity of all program efforts along with collaboration with the Even Start program, with which we share the building.

We commuted up here for a couple years, stayed with Connie's parents, leased a home and then purchased a home that needed to be remodeled. We moved into that house four years ago.

It's one that we would be proud to take home to our parents.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.