In their most recent budgets, state lawmakers have directly committed over 5 million in state funding collectively to expand Head Start and Early Head Start to more than 22,000 children ages birth to five, filling critical services gaps for at-risk children and families. States are facing a crisis of at-risk young children and families . There is a ready-built solution to supporting at-risk children and families that has been embraced by D.C. and 14 states: local Head Start and Early Head Start programs. Whether they commit to