Supporting Children through Public Library Partnerships
Recommendations to assist Head Start, child care programs, and public libraries to partner and help meet the educational needs of young children and their families.
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Family Service Workers
Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Simulation: Boosting School Readiness Through Effective Family Engagement Series
What you do and say matters! Explore and practice everyday strategies to develop Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships with a family.
Goal Setting with Families
The goals of the Head Start training are to develop skills and practices for developing strong relationships with families in order to help families identify and set goals.
Measuring What Matters: Using Data to Support Family Progress
Programs collect and use a variety of family related data. This set of resources assist programs to gather, analyze, and share data with families that includes their voices and honors their perspectives.
Family Engagement and Ongoing Child Assessment
The partnership between parents and staff is fundamental to children's current and future success in school readiness and beyond. Discover how programs can share information with families about children's learning and progress toward school readiness outcomes.
Las Manos de Apá Resources
Explore this set of resources designed to support Latino fathers as early literacy models for their children. The resources outline creating father-friendly environments, building community supports, sharing stories, and supporting early literacy for young children. Many of the resources and activities are in English and Spanish.
Credentialing and Degree Programs Databases for Family Services Staff
Head Start program staff who work with families can find the latest credentialing, certificate, and degree programs in their region with these four databases.
Depression in Mothers: More Than the Blues – A Toolkit for Family Service Providers
The toolkit provides information about depression and offers ideas that providers can use daily when helping mothers and their families.
5 Action Steps to Address Maternal Depression in Head Start Programs
While roughly 15% of new mothers suffer from maternal depression, the rates are much higher in families with lower incomes. In fact, 52% of mothers in an Early Head Start research study reported high levels of depressive symptoms.
Assessing Family Crisis
A crisis is a period of heightened family tension and imbalance that requires quick staff identification. Head Start staff who work with families will find this information useful in understanding what brings about crises for families. Just as a crisis is an opportunity for a family, it is also an opportunity for staff to make a real difference in the life of a Head Start family
