Course Type: Family Services
10 courses
New to Head Start leadership? Hit the ground running with the only course designed specifically for emerging Head Start leaders like you.
Take a four-month learning journey with other new Head Start and Early Head Start Directors. Here you will dig into a wide range of program leadership topics, including effective leadership development, communication and advocacy, operations, and more.
Mental health is essential to laying the groundwork for all future development in young children. Learn more about social-emotional development and how your relationships with young children can positively impact their current and future mental health and well-being!
From intention to action, this course empowers learners with the leadership skills needed to ensure that whole community leadership is an intentional focus and practice in their program.
The Head Start Manager Credential is designed for general management and will provide learners with information on a number of topics—ranging from becoming an advocate in the Head Start community to innovating within the program. This course will help leaders expand Head Start’s reach beyond the program and directly impact their communities!
This credential explores topics surrounding day-to-day leadership in Head Start and Early Head Start sites. Participants will work on managing and leading teams, setting tone and culture at the site level, and managing the everyday responsibilities that make up Head Start and Early Head Start programming.
This certification provides Head Start family services staff with a chance to demonstrate skills that support family engagement and wellbeing.
Staff who are new to Family Services in Head Start will be empowered and inspired by lessons that cover HSPPS, PFCE framework, ERSEA, how to guard against compassion fatigue, and more. New staff will leave this course prepared to begin their family services journey.
The Executive Leadership Network is an opportunity extended to those leaders who successfully complete the Executive Leadership Credential. The network will work together regularly throughout the year to tackle trends in Head Start and Early Head Start.
Join us for a year-long journey to develop executive-level leadership skills, collaborate to solve current challenges, and identify innovative approaches to leading Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
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