Legislator Toback Provides Funds For Community Center

 Head Start Program Benefits

Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback (D-Oceanside) visited children from the Five Towns Community Center Head Start Program. The children will benefit from the funds Legislator Toback acquired for improvements in the building that include a fire alarm system and repairs to the roof. Legislator Toback acquired $6,000 in community revitalization project funds for the installation of the fire alarm system and $25,000 in community development block grant funds for roof repair.

“The funds were necessary to meet federal government requirements to keep the Head Start Program at the center,” Legislator Toback said. “Being able to provide this type of assistance to such a vital program is government at its best. I’m happy that I was able to help keep the Head Start Program in the Five Towns.”  

The Head Start Program provides grants to comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families. The programs promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families.

Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback (D-Oceanside) stopped by to meet with the children from the Five Towns Community Center Head Start Program who will benefit from his efforts to improve the building. He was joined by Nicole Smart, family service worker; Peter Visconti, acting executive director; Felicia Grandy Miller, director; Kimberly Gonzalez, family service worker; and Bertha Pruitt, acting associate director.