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Use this step-by-step guide to plan and host a successful kindergarten registration event. Find ways to engage all four points of connection to support families in the enrollment process.

Find research-based practices and activities to help leaders create successful transitions to kindergarten. Use this information to support the four points of connection that are key to transitions.

This guide offers tips, organized across a timeline, for families to engage in the kindergarten transition and support their children throughout the process.

Use this guide to explore strategies for building community partnerships.

Explore how infant and early childhood mental health consultants can use this resource to guide their family engagement work with early childhood professionals and families.

Use this form to help pregnant women share important information about their pregnancy and oral health with dental office staff. It can help dental office staff best meet pregnant women’s oral health needs.

Explore this tip sheet to learn about 10 ways to create state and local program partnerships between Head Start and local Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs.

Learn how programs can find and connect with child care health consultants (CCHCs). Explore ways CCHCs can help improve program safety as well as provide professional development opportunities for staff.

Explore this tip sheet to find questions to engage families about kindergarten readiness. Learn about suggested actions health services staff may take to help children transition to kindergarten.

Review the allowable uses of quality improvement funds for Head Start and Early Head Start programs based on Sec. 640(a)(5) of the Head Start Act.