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.
The Cost Estimation Tool for Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnership Services is designed to help EHS-CC Partnership grantees and their child care partners plan for the cost of delivering comprehensive Early Head Start (EHS) services to children enrolled in child care homes and centers.
Learn how the Community Action Project of Tulsa County (CAP) combined the philosophy of traditional Head Start with collaborative partnerships from area school districts to transform a program on the brink of collapse into a highly regarded early childhood program.
Read about Implementing Early Head Start in Family Child Care.
Discover strategies to avoid supplantation of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership funds.
Explore an at-a-glance overview of the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) related to ratios and groups sizes for both family child care and child care centers. This document provides clear examples and references the HSPPS to assist programs in determining whether they are meeting all child ratio and group size requirements.
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.
Early Head Start (EHS) and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) both serve low-income families and their children; however, there are some differences in policy, operations, and funding requirements. EHS-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships will benefit from strategies to bridge these differences. These strategies might include aligning policies to encourage stability and continuity of care, streamlining administrative procedures, and identifying opportunities to support Partnerships and providers.
The purpose of this Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project is to design, implement and evaluate a replicable framework that supports a partnership between Early Head Start and family child care. This project will increase quality for all low-income children in family child care homes by leveraging comprehensive services that include health and social services.
The purpose of this Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project is to design, implement and evaluate a replicable framework that supports a partnership between Early Head Start and family child care. This project will increase quality for all low-income children in family child care homes by leveraging comprehensive services that include health and social services.
The Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project (EHS for FCC) is funded to design, implement and evaluate a replicable framework that supports a partnership between Early Head Start and family child care. This project will increase quality for low-income children in family child care homes by leveraging comprehensive services that include health and social services.