Embed or query the federal Head Start Center Locator to find Head Start and Early Head Start programs
domain: www.headstart.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Use the interactive locator at headstart.gov/center-locator to search by zip code, city, or state, optionally filtering by center type (Head Start Preschool, Early Head Start, Migrant and Seasonal, or American Indian/Alaska Native) and radius
To embed the tool on another site, use the documented iframe snippet from headstart.gov/center-locator/instructions rather than reverse-engineering the widget
Email the Head Start web team (headstart@eclkc.info) before embedding — the instructions explicitly warn the widget will not work without prior coordination
Provide a zip code, city, or state input; the locator does not support unrestricted/wildcard queries and is limited to U.S. states and territories
For grant-level detail beyond location, cross-reference the returned Grant Number against Office of Head Start program data (acf.gov/ohs)
Known gotchas
There is no documented public REST/JSON API behind this tool — only an iframe embed for the interactive map, and even that requires the Head Start web team to allowlist your site first
The locator returns an explicit error ('limited to U.S. States and Territories') for unsupported/out-of-scope location input rather than an empty result set
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