Head Start is not only child care to parents, it is wrap-around care. It helps with parenting, discipline, health decisions, nutrition, and dental care, just to name a few benefits.

Viviana Banuelos, teacher, left, plays with a child in the Early Head Start program in Pasadena. Head Start serves 800,000 low-income children across the country, including 75,000 in California.

Head Start helps provide preschool and child care for roughly 800,000 children. But the Trump White House has the program on the chopping block.

But the White House's broader efforts to slash more than $160 billion from the federal budget could still have implications for Head Start families, she warned. "The proposed deep cuts to non ...