Trump Accounts promise a financial head start for children, but how do they really work? Learn who qualifies, how the $1,000 ...

Sarah Morgan was looking forward to enrolling her 1-year-old son Lucas at the Skagit Valley Family YMCA’s early learning center in Anacortes, Washington, this fall. Her older son Jameson, 5, had a ...

Vaccines are a safe and highly effective way to prevent common diseases that used to seriously harm or even kill infants, children and adults. When children have all their recommended vaccines on ...

The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which provides recommended vaccines at no cost to eligible children, has increased childhood vaccination coverage, but coverage is still lower than among ...

Parents value after-school programs, but demand far exceeds available capacity, particularly among low- and middle-income families, a new report finds. Families want after-school programming for about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yolanda Rubio, parent and teachers aid, plays with a child in the Early Head Start program at Pacific Clinics Head Start in ...

A child care teacher plays with children in a home-based child care program in Pueblo, Colorado. States and nonprofits have launched efforts to support smaller providers. Credit: Jackie Mader/The ...