At the same time, they are trying to continue to serve Head Start families, knowing that soon, some of them could be barred from it. In response, the National Head Start Association sent an open letter to the president signed by 50,000 Head Start parents and alumni. April Mullins-Datko, the Head Start director at ADVOCAP, a community action agency in Wisconsin that provides Head Start services, said her funding was delayed for more than a month. Robbing Peter and paying Paul,” said Mullins-Datko, a 20-year Head Start veteran who was a Head Start child herself in the 1980s. In Indiana, Rhett Cecil, the head of the state’s Head Start Association, is also trying to keep the conversation nonpartisan.