Program areas at Big Five Community Services
Head start/early head start program - prepares children from low-income families to succeed in school by providing basic skills. The ages of the children range from 0-5 years old. The goal is to help them improve their readiness for school by helping them grow mentally, socially, emotionally, and physically. This program also provides free meals to improve nutrition and also provides free medical and dental Services. A total of 1,637 children, infants, and toddlers were funded, 1,535 head start and 102 early head start, in 105 classrooms of which 36 were in collaboration with public school systems and child care facilities in the 23 county service area.
Transportation program - provides low cost transit Services for low-income, elderly, and handicap persons to enhance access to jobs, schools, medical appointments, meal sites, and shopping. This program has a fleet of over 35 vehicles ranging in size from 20-passenger to 4-passenger ada micro buses and all sort vehicles in the fleet are ada equipped. For 2023, there was over 332,222 miles driven to serve 51,022 passenger trips in a 4-county area.
Housing - provides housing to persons of low and moderate income, subject to regulation by the u.s. department of housing and urban development (hud) as to rental charges and operating methods. Qualifying tenants are charged a reduced rent.