Head Start and Child Care Collaboration
Discover resources to help partnerships find ways to understand, respect, and work with the similarities and differences between Head Start programs and child care.
Explore this topic for strategies and promising practices to support children and their families within Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships and other local partnerships, such as pre-K. Training and technical assistance (T/TA) staff and EHS-CC Partnership grantees and their child care partners will find resources about partnerships, family child care, and regulations and standards. Also find tools and materials around administration, research, and evaluation.
Discover resources to help partnerships find ways to understand, respect, and work with the similarities and differences between Head Start programs and child care.
Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships must find ways to support family well-being. Explore how programs can communicate the benefits and critical role parents play in the lives of their children.
Explore research on the impact of quality practices, models for quality home-based child care (i.e., family child care), and partnerships between child care and Head Start, and Early Head Start programs.
Explore materials from an Office of Head Start and Office of Child Care demonstration project. These resources may be useful to Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships that include family child care partners.
Use this glossary to establish the shared vocabulary partners need to have productive discussions and a sound working relationship.
HeadStart.gov
official website of the Administration for Children and Families