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Community partnerships help build early childhood systems, enhance access to comprehensive services for low-income children, and involve Head Start in state policies affecting low-income families.

This course will help you gain skills to create and manage formal agreements with community partners to ensure comprehensive service delivery. 

Course Information:

• Start Date: On-Demand
• Course Level: Beginner
• Requirements/Prerequisites: None
• Target Audience: Instruction and Effective Practice, Leadership and Management, Program Operations
• Course Meeting Times: None
• Completion Timeline/Duration: One Month

Topics:

• Community Partnerships
• How to Create a Project Plan

Learning Objectives:

Learners will understand how to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with community organizations to support children’s and families’ needs, implement effective communication strategies to support and sustain community partnerships, and create and manage formal agreements with community partners to ensure comprehensive service delivery. 

Head Start Alignment

This course supports programs in meeting the 1302.53 Community partnerships requirement of the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) in which “A program must establish ongoing collaborative relationships and partnerships with community organizations.”

Course Author

Zuly Vazquez

Zuly Vazquez is the Senior Manager of Online Professional Development at the National Head Start Association (NHSA), where she leads leadership courses and both the 5-star review CDA program for Head Start and early childhood educators —a multiple-time Apex Award winner by Training Magazine—and the groundbreaking CDA Pathway to Purpose for High School students. As an innovative educator and professional development expert, she is transforming entry paths into early childhood education. Drawing from her experience as a classroom teacher, trainer, curriculum developer, to Head Start leadership, her expertise in bilingual instruction and curriculum design ensures all programs maintain rigorous, high-quality professional standards while offering flexible online delivery. Through her comprehensive approach to professional development, she strengthens the early childhood workforce pipeline by supporting current educators and creating pathways for high school students to discover their calling while building a more diverse, qualified, and passionate generation of educators committed to shaping the future of our youngest learners.