Program Recording: 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 members of your Policy Council are knowledgeable and well-positioned to advocate for your program–at the local, state, and federal levels. Policy Council members can be especially helpful in advocating at the federal level–reaching out directly, joining you when an elected official visits your program, or being part of your delegation to NHSA’s Fall or Winter Leadership Institutes.
Learning Objectives:
- understand how to consider advocacy when seeking Policy Council members;
- learn how to engage and empower your Policy Council for advocacy; and
- hear what other programs are doing.
Resources and Recording:
- Presentation
- Advocating for Head Start
- Program Visits: A Powerful Way to Illustrate the Value of Head Start
Recording: Empowering Your Parent Council for Advocacy Presenter:
Bob Bissen, Director of Government Affairs
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