A crucial free service for hundreds of metro Detroit children is ending after Focus Hope's Head Start program was denied $6 million in federal funding.

The nonprofit held a town hall Tuesday, informing families that their Head Start program would not continue, affecting 300 metro Detroit children and resulting in over 100 staff layoffs.

"Honestly, I'm a grown man, but I cried tears because the first thing I was thinking about was my babies," said Vincent McCormock, whose child attends the Head Start program.

McCormock says his family faces an uncertain future following the news. His wife was laid off from Focus Hope in June because of budget cuts, and now his two children are left without vital services.

"Since I leave Jamaica, they are my new family here in Detroit because I got no fa

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