Topic: Policy
Recording: Congressional Program Visits
Program Recording: Congressional Program Visits: An Impactful Way to Illustrate the Value of Head Start Program Description: You can describe to a member of Congress or their staff the value your program provides to children, families, and the community in an email, a letter, a phone call, or a meeting in the member’s office. But…
Recording: Empowering Your Parent Council for Advocacy
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…
Webinar: Speech & Language Developmental Milestones
This learning session explored the speech and language developmental guidelines from a bilingual speech-language pathologist.
Webinar: Effective State-Level Policies
This session shares 11 state-level policies that help foster the nurturing environments infants and toddlers need to thrive and that reduce longstanding disparities in opportunities and outcomes among racial and ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses.
Public Transit Accessibility (and Burden) of Head Start Centers
NHSA and the Civic Mapping Initiative partnered to conduct a first-of-its-kind analysis of Head Start centers and public transit.
Webinar: Preschool Development Grants
Head Start and Early Head Start are critical infrastructure in state early childhood systems and has the potential to partner with Preschool Development Grants to support child and family success.
Connecting Families Facing Food Insecurity to Head Start
The recent SNAP rule change is strengthening both Head Start’s outreach to families facing food insecurity and state and local partnerships.