FLX MORNING PODCAST – Finger Lakes Community Action Head Start program

Ted Baker
Red abstract figure embracing a blue ribbon, forming a heart-like shape, on a white background.
The logo for Finger Lakes Community Action, an organization serving the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
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In this episode:

  • We talked with Program Director Stacy DeGroff and Assistant Director Colleen Peno.
  • The history of the program, which began as part of the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty in 1965.
  • How Community Action works both with schools and on its own to provide educational, nutritional and other services to over 300 kids in Wayne County.
  • Plans to expand services.