Success Stories

The 5 Bright Spots to Designing Your Fatherhood Program

This workshop will equip attendees to more effectively serve fathers, provide quality services, and ensure program sustainability.

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Father Friendly Check-Up

Program: Father Friendly Check-Up Description: The Father Friendly Check-Up workshop will provide participants with training on how to create a father-friendly organization in any setting. It is ideal for both staff who are beginning to engage fathers and those who are seasoned in father engagement. Learning Objectives: Learn to create a father-friendly organization from a…

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Moving Through the Stages of Father Inclusion

Program: Moving Through the Stages of Father Inclusion Description: A National Fatherhood Initiative® (NFI) trainer will conduct a training on how to move through the Four Stages of Father Inclusion: 1) Aware, 2) Prepare, 3) Launch, and 4) Maintain & Grow. The training will use engaging videos to illustrate the importance of father inclusion, how…

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Program of Excellence Informational Webinar

Program: Program of Excellence Informational Webinar Description: Have you heard of NHSA’s Program of Excellence designation? It is earned by programs that consistently demonstrate outstanding performance in program management and service and continually support robust outcomes for children birth-to-five, pregnant people, families, and the communities where they live. To help you determine if now is…

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Spanish version of The Multisensory Magic of Music Making with Infants

Program: Spanish version of The Multisensory Magic of Music Making with Infants Description: STEM is already on the rotation in early childhood classrooms, but have you considered STEAM? Elements within the Arts directly support skills learned and needed within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. “A” is truly the secret ingredient as the joy that happens…

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The Multisensory Magic of Music Making with Infants

Program: The Multisensory Magic of Music Making with Infants Description: STEM is already on the rotation in early childhood classrooms, but have you considered STEAM? Elements within the Arts directly support skills learned and needed within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. “A” is truly the secret ingredient as the joy that happens in early shared…

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Versión en español: Enhancing Attunement with Music Rituals

Program: Spanish version of Enhancing Attunement with Music Rituals Description: Tricky transitions—like school drop-off, naptime, and handwashing—don’t have to be tricky. Music rituals help counteract stress responses and reduce anxiety by creating calm, setting expectations, and strengthening attunement. Learning Objectives: review the elements that trigger “shutdown” mode in young children, why music transforms those responses…

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Enhancing Attunement with Music Rituals

Program: Enhancing Attunement with Music Rituals Description: Tricky transitions—like school drop-off, naptime, and handwashing—don’t have to be tricky. Music rituals help counteract stress responses and reduce anxiety by creating calm, setting expectations, and strengthening attunement. Learning Objectives: review the elements that trigger “shutdown” mode in young children, why music transforms those responses faster than other…

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Advocacy Webinar: Empowering Your Parent Council for Advocacy

Program: Empowering Your Parent Council for Advocacy Description: As you know, Head Start Policy Councils are composed of Head Start preschool and Early Head Start parents and community members. With parent members often joining after serving on a parent committee and community members taking a special interest in the broader benefits of Head Start, the…

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60 Years of Head Start!

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National Head Start Conference

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Winter Leadership Institute

Join us in helping ensure this Congress is one that understands, values, and empowers the important role Head Start serves for our nation’s most vulnerable children and families. Right now, key decision-makers in our nation’s capital are in the process of making difficult spending decisions, with differing priorities competing for a limited pool of money….

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