Despite the shortage of child-care centers and preschools in Ventura County, Head Start employees must recruit children to fill classrooms in several of their 16 schools.
Beginning next week, bilingual outreach workers will canvass neighborhoods, set up tables at public health clinics and visit local markets. And they will go door-to-door, trying to persuade low-income parents to register their children at a Head Start preschool....
"Recruiting is necessary and exhausting," [Sandra Estrada] said. "It's hard to find people in this area. I'm worried about how I am going to find kids for next year."
4/15/00
The Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2000:
