{"id":303933,"date":"2026-06-11T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303933\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:40:08","slug":"florida-state-university-early-head-start-marks-30-years-of-supporting-gadsden-county-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303933\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State University Early Head Start marks 30 years of supporting Gadsden County families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For first-time mother Jemisa Lamb, the weekly home visits from Florida State University\u2019s Early Head Start program provided something she was\u00a0missing:\u00a0guidance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having lost her own mother years earlier, Lamb was looking for support as she learned how to care for her child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a first-time mom in 2014 I didn\u2019t know anything. I needed help,\u201d said Lamb, a Gadsden County mother. \u201cMy home visitors always took the place of my mom. I was looking for answers that I couldn\u2019t get from my mom, so they gave me the advice I needed \u2014 parenting from step one to step two or how to care for them to see them progress and grow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For 30 years, stories like Lamb\u2019s have been at the heart of FSU <a href=\"https:\/\/csw.fsu.edu\/node\/3091\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Early Head Start<\/a>\u00a0in Gadsden County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The program, operated through Florida State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpeip.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy<\/a>, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Since 1996, it has helped expectant parents and families with infants and toddlers build strong foundations during the earliest years of a child\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy supporting families through FSU Early Head Start we are investing in the foundation of strong thriving communities where every child and parent has the opportunity to grow and succeed. Decades of research have robustly demonstrated that caregiver and early childhood interventions enhance healthy human development.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014\u00a0Jim Clark, FSU provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy supporting families through FSU Early Head Start we are investing in the foundation of strong thriving communities where every child and parent has the opportunity to grow and succeed,\u201d said Jim Clark, FSU\u00a0provost\u00a0and executive vice president for Academic Affairs.\u00a0\u201cDecades of research have robustly demonstrated that caregiver and early childhood interventions enhance healthy human development.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For first-time mother Jemisa Lamb, the weekly home visits from Florida State University\u2019s Early Head Start program provided&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127451,56746,18032,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-center-for-prevention-and-early-intervention-policy","tag-college-of-social-work","tag-early-head-start","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}