Addressing Vacant Slots Due to Chronic Absenteeism in Head Start Programs
Log Number: ACF-OHS-IM-25-06 | Issuance Date: 09-26-2025
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Attendance
Ensuring children’s regular participation in programs and services is essential for their development and learning and for future school success. Resources here cover tracking attendance and incorporating strategies to promote regular attendance.
For more ERSEA resources, check out eligibility, recruitment, selection, and enrollment.
Creating a Culture That Embraces Data
This interactive module is designed to help Head Start programs create an organizational culture that embraces the use of data to drive decisions.
Health Services to Promote Attendance
Good attendance leads to lifelong learning and positive habits necessary for school and work. When young children are chronically absent from Head Start, Early Head Start, or child care, often they are likely to continue to be chronically absent in elementary school.
Attendance: Maximizing the Full Head Start Experience
Learn about strategies programs can use to work with key stakeholders to promote regular attendance. These strategies and guiding questions help grantees develop policies around program attendance.
Health and School Readiness
Explore these resources to learn about the connection between health and school readiness and to ensure every Head Start child is ready to succeed in school.
ERSEA: Exploring Needs and Strategies in Uncertain Times Webinar
Explore strategies to address child and family needs in uncertain times. Discover how to adapt eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) services. Find resources to support this work.
Program Strategies to Provide Access and Continuity of Services to Fathers
Take a look at this guide to learn how programs can implement strategies to ensure access and continuity of services to fathers in Head Start programs.
1302.16 Attendance.
To promote regular attendance, programs must have a system to track attendance for each enrolled child. Review this standard for clarity around implementation strategies and managing attendance issues.
Addressing Barriers that Limit Attendance
Many programs may face low family attendance at group socializations for a variety of reasons. Find out ways programs can meet this challenge and address low family attendance.
