State and Community Homelessness Maps
Explore three interactive maps with data and key contact information to support Head Start programs in their efforts to recruit and serve children and families experiencing homelessness.
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Homelessness
Each year, more than 1 million young children experience homelessness in the United States. These children are automatically eligible for Head Start services. Homelessness is a circumstance families may experience when they are faced with such challenges as extreme poverty and lack of affordable housing. It can also occur when a family's current living situation becomes unsafe or unstable.
Homelessness is a state of vulnerability for children and families. It can expose them to physical, mental, and developmental risks. This resource collection features materials to help Head Start programs provide needed support to children and families experiencing homelessness.
Explore relevant eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) strategies and resources for supporting families in your program.
Homelessness Maps: Education, Housing, and Head Start Contacts
This state-level map provides contact information for state coordinators for homeless education, local education agency (LEA) homelessness liaisons, and Head Start State Collaboration Offices. It also features resources made available by each state related to homelessness, where applicable.
Homelessness Maps: Poverty Rates in Your Community
This map contains poverty rates at the state, county, and census tract levels alongside Head Start locations.
Homelessness Maps: National Service Providers
This map contains organizations linked to national networks that serve families experiencing homelessness.
Services to Enrolled Pregnant Women
Some Early Head Start programs may also decide to serve pregnant women in addition to children. Learn about the requirements in 45 CFR § 1302.80.
Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness
Explore materials to help your program enroll and support children and families experiencing homelessness. Learn to support sensitive conversations about living circumstances and find state and local partners.
Prioritizing Families Experiencing Homelessness for Enrollment: Performance Standards and Related Strategies
Explore this webinar for ways to help programs meet the needs of families experiencing homelessness. Learn about regulations that can support programs in this work.
Supporting Families Experiencing Homelessness Webinar Series
Watch this three-part webinar series features exemplary practices from Head Start programs and collaboration directors.
Establishing and Sustaining Community Partnerships for Outreach and Continuity
Hear how programs can partner with community agencies to help families who face homelessness. Learn how this effort can help programs reach children and families who are in need of services.
Enrolling Children and Young Families Experiencing Homelessness in Early Head Start
Learn about the Maternity Group Homes (MGH) program. Discover how one MGH and Early Head Start program are working together to meet the needs of pregnant and parenting youth who are experiencing homelessness.
