Head Start

For Local Head Start Programs

• Family Development and Case Management “Refresh and Renew" Spring Institutes 2023 for Head Start Programs will take place on Zoom.
  
  

• The Salary and Benefits Survey of Local Head Start Programs 2022 is now available!
  
  

• The Salary and Benefits Survey Report of Local Head Start Programs 2020 is still available. Survey participants received a discount on the price of the Report. Non-participants can order the Report online.

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Review Ready! Spreadsheet 2024

With the FY2024 Monitoring Protocol review questions of Focus Area 1 (8/18/2023) and Focus Area 2 (11/27/2023) and Risk Assessment Notification (10/6/2023)

The Center for Community Futures is pleased to announce the availability of the Review Ready! Spreadsheet 2024 for use by your local Head Start program to help get ready for your next Federal review. 

The file has:

• The complete text of the Monitoring Protocol review questions,

• The corresponding Performance Standards, Federal regulations, and Head Start Act requirements spelled out right next to them, 

• Space for writing notes and keeping track of each item, 

• The text from the Head Start Act, Final Rule, 45 CFR Part 74 (2CFR Part 200), and the Periodicity Schedule.

• We will e-mail you the Review Ready! Spreadsheet 2024 for $89.00 to the e-mail address you specify.

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Policies On Your Drive 2017 (POD2017)

On September 6, 2016 the Head Start Program Performance Standards were published in the Federal Register, which include 1,306 requirements for Head Start programs. 

How will your program develop policies and procedures that meet all of these requirements? Use Policies On Your Drive 2017. 

This 686-page Microsoft Word Policies and Procedures Manual:

• has 440 draft policies and procedures

• is organized by the structure of the Head Start Program Performance Standards

• references the regulations related to the policies

• is useful for both Grantee and program level operations

• is available in electronic format

• was developed by word-smithing, policy writing, project management experts

• makes it easier to formulate, locate, modify, and manage policies and procedures for your Head Start/Early Head Start program.
  
  Click here to order.

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Does your program have a written area plan for Family and Community Partnerships?  Send it to us--and we can share it with other programs. Email jmasters@cencomfut.com 

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Fall Institute online via Zoom 

Basic Skills Summer Institutes

Based on the Relationship Based Competencies for staff who work with families.

Management Institute for Head Start.

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We can help you with your Wage and Benefits Comparability Study.

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Links to Sites of Interest to Head Start Programs:

• National Head Start Association www.nhsa.org

• ACF/DHHS Head Start Bureau www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb

• Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc

• Parents as Teachers www.ParentsAsTeachers.org