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Recruitment

Family at the playground.These resources support recruitment as a year-round, systematic process with specific efforts to actively locate and recruit children with disabilities, children experiencing homelessness or living in foster care, and other vulnerable children.

For more ERSEA resources, check out eligibility, selection, enrollment, and attendance.

Select Talent Acquisition for resources related to staff recruitment.

Head Start Forward: LACOE Head Start

Leaders and parents from the LACOE Head Start program share best practices for recruiting eligible families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is the United States Your New Home?

Share information about Head Start services with families who are new to the United States. The customizable flyer is available in several languages.

#GetaHeadStart Alumni Stories

Check out these videos from Head Start alumni to learn how being a Head Start student gave them a head start in life.

#GetaHeadStart: Dr. Bernadine Futrell

Watch the former Office of Head Start Director Dr. Bernadine Futrell talks about her time as a Head Start student and what that meant to her and her family.

#GetaHeadStart: Darren Walker

Hear Ford Foundation President Darren Walker explain how his experience with the Head Start program helped him succeed and find a passion for human rights.

#GetaHeadStart: Angel Taveras

Listen to Angel Taveras, former mayor of Providence and proud graduate of both the Head Start program and Harvard University, as he discuss how the program helped him #GetaHeadStart.

#GetaHeadStart: Bonnie St. John

Learn why Olympian and former White House economist Bonnie St. John credits the safe space the Head Start program gave her as a child for the starting point for her success.

#GetaHeadStart: David Schauer

Watch Professor and Executive Director of NCRP David Schauer talk about developing a love of learning early in life as a Head Start student.

 

#GetaHeadStart: Loretta Sanchez

Hear from former U.S. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez about how Head Start services helped her and her family’s development as an immigrant family new to America.

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