STEPS Head Start & Childcare

STEPS Head Start & Childcare is an early childhood education program that includes activities such as support groups, CPR/First Aid training, hospital visits, breastfeeding support, and learning about child development and safety. The program also offers home visits as part of its services.

• Ages: 0–5 years old
• Price: $210 weekly rate private pay childcare Infants (birth - 15 months); $200 Toddlers (16-36 months); $195 (preschool age 3-5 years); $115 Head Start Wrap Around (Full day); $130 Early Head Start Wrap Around (Full day); $50 Registration Fee; 2024 - 2025 Weekly Prices $195 (preschool age 3-5 years); $50 Registration Fee

STEPS Head Start & Childcare states that its purpose is to provide high quality, developmentally appropriate learning environments, foster exploration, and encourage play, and that through its holistic 2Gen approach to services it strives to strengthen the skills of all participants and prepare children and families to be school ready. The program offers a variety of options, including Head Start, Early Head Start, Mixed Delivery, subsidized childcare, and private pay childcare, and uses one application for enrollment to determine program options, with some programs offered at no or low cost. STEPS Early Head Start serves pregnant women and their families, infants, and toddlers through an Expectant Mothers Program that uses a research based curriculum. Little Movers childcare is available in Farmville for families who do not qualify for Head Start or Early Head Start. Mixed Delivery is described as state funded childcare that runs 12 months of the year, with a parent co-payment that will not exceed 7% of their income, and parents must be employed to qualify for Mixed Delivery services.

STEPS Head Start serves children from Amelia, Appomattox, Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Lunenburg, and Prince Edward counties, and STEPS Early Head Start serves pregnant women and their families, infants, and toddlers in Amelia, Charlotte, Lunenburg, and Prince Edward. STEPS is a subsidized childcare provider in Prince Edward and Charlotte counties and offers slots in Prince Edward through Mixed Delivery, as well as a private childcare option in Farmville, VA. The Assistant Director of Programs is Taneha Terry. This institution is an equal opportunity provider, and its website is supported by Grant Number 03CH012094 from the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Last updated July 18, 2026.