Visiting the Dental Clinic with Your Child
Regular dental visits are important to keep children’s teeth and mouths healthy and to teach them to value good oral health. Learn about what will happen at the dental clinic.
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The Office of Head Start NCH oral health forms are important records of a pregnant woman’s or child’s dental visit.
Head Start Health Services Competencies: A Tool to Support Health Managers and Staff
The Head Start Health Services Competencies are a set of 68 competencies. Each describes an attitude, knowledge, or skill important for effective health services.
Head Start Health Services Competencies Professional Development Assessment
Read this companion document to the Tool to Support Health Managers and Staff. Program directors, health managers, and health staff can use it to promote successful job performance and support career development.
Head Start Eligibility Verification Form
Programs may use the Head Start Eligibility Verification Form as a component of the eligibility determination record alongside copies of documents or statements deemed necessary to verify eligibility.
The Family Partnership Process: Engaging and Goal-Setting with Families
Strong, healthy families give their children the best chance at success in school and in life. The Family Goal-Setting Guide explores how strong partnerships can positively influence the goals families set in the Family Partnership Process.
Financing and Budgeting for Early Care and Education Facilities Guidebook
Grantees can use this facilities guidance resource to help them think through the financial considerations around how to develop a new early care and education facility. The document also includes links to the Head Start Program Performance Standards.
Certification of Health and Safety Screening
This form may be used to fulfill the OHS requirement that the grantee governing body submit a signed certification of compliance with all applicable health and safety requirements within 75 calendar days of the start of the program or school year, or within 75 calendar days of the start of the five year project period when the five year project period begins during the program or school year. The form must be submitted to OHS in the Head Start Enterprise System (HSES) immediately thereafter.
The signatures on this form attest that an agency has completed a health and safety screening of each site where children receive Head Start services, consistent with the terms and conditions of the Notice of Award (NoA).
A Guide to Safety Conversations with Families
Learn strategies to support ongoing home safety conversations with families using home safety checklists.
