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HACAP Corporate Office
P.O. Box 490
1515 Hawkeye Drive
Hiawatha, Iowa 52233
(319)393-7811
info@hacap.org

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Volunteers Warm Heads and Hearts
updated May 05, 2008

Volunteers from Westover Manor knitted 172 hats for area Head Start and Early Head Start children.  [Full Story]

Barnes & Noble Donates Books to Head Start
updated January 17, 2008

HACAP’s Head Start program has received over 1500 children’s books through a donation awarded by Barnes & Noble’s Annual Holiday Book Drive.   [Full Story]

HACAP Head Start Earns National Accreditatition
updated January 03, 2008

HACAP Head Start centers earn National NAEYC Accreditation. Program among first in nation to complete more rigorous accreditation process.   [Full Story]

Homeless Children’s Trust Community Christmas
updated December 11, 2007

The Homeless Children’s Trust Annual Community Christmas party provided a festive holiday atmosphere for over 100 area children and their families. The Linn County edition of the celebration, hosted at Aegon, was held December 8th.   [Full Story]

National Poverty Down, Number of Uninsured Up
updated September 04, 2007

The U.S. Census Bureau report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance reports that the national poverty rate declined in 2006; In spite of this the number of uninsured has increased.   [Full Story]

Head Start offers New Beginnings
updated September 04, 2007

Examples of Head Start success stories often come to us in the forms of letters from Head Start parents. One such letter from a college student with a child in Head Start was recently sent to us.   [Full Story]

HACAP honors service at retreat
updated August 30, 2007

The HACAP 2007 Staff Retreat at the Holiday in at Little Amana served as an opportunity to honor many long time employees.   [Full Story]

Another PACES Provider Earns National Recognition
updated August 24, 2007

Provider and Child Education Services (PACES)is proud to announce that Tina Williams of Cedar Rapids has earned national accreditation through the National Association of Family Child Care.   [Full Story]

Boy Scout builds sandboxes for Inn Circle
updated August 20, 2007

Boy Scout Matt Downey along with his father and several volunteers have built and donated three sandboxes for HACAP's Inn Circle Head Start location.  [Full Story]

Presidential Candidate Visits HACAP
updated July 27, 2007

Presidential candidate and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd visited HACAP’s Urban location July 26th. The Senator, a long time champion of the national Head Start program, job shadowed Head Start teacher and SEIU Worksite Leader Colleen Mehaffey.   [Full Story]

HACAP Intern Excels in the Classroom/Gridiron
updated July 19, 2007

HACAP Head Start intern Erich Boomgarden has received a Presidential Scholarship that will pay his full tuition to St. Louis University, where he will attend medical school.  [Full Story]

HACAP awarded grant for Dental Project
updated July 09, 2007

The Linn County Family and Community Health Alliance, a program of HACAP, has recieved a grant of $59,000 from the Iowa Department of Public Health to develop a dental program for children.   [Full Story]

New Leadership at HACAP
updated June 11, 2007

After 25 years of leading HACAP, Chief Executive Officer Don Maniccia has stepped down. The appointment, effective June 1st, of new CEO, Jane Drapeaux, formerly HACAP’s Executive Director, marks a rare change in leadership at HACAP.   [Full Story]