Use this tool to determine your program's readiness for planning and implementing an Early Head Start or Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program.

Discover strategies leaders can use to help promote continuity of care in their state, territory, and Tribe. Explore useful resources including an assessment tool that looks at current practices. 

Programs in areas that experience extreme cold should have a plan for handling winter emergencies. Explore tips your program can use to prepare for emergencies such as frostbite, hypothermia, and loss of power.

Explore this tip sheet with parents to discover the many ways they can become an advocate and leader in their child’s school or in their community.

Learn more about the comprehensive services Head Start programs provide to more than 1 million children and their families each year.

In this tip sheet, learn ways parents can advocate for their children and their communities. Explore how parenting skills have a lot in common with effective leadership skills.

Explore this tip sheet with parents to help them recognize the powerful leadership skills and abilities they already have and use in their everyday life.

The tip sheet provides oral health best practices for infants, toddlers, and young children. Review information on how to handle basic oral health emergencies.

Review the Head Start Program Performance Standards for Early Head Start programs related to enrolling pregnant women and expectant families.