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Step into the future of leadership. Are you a Head Start director or executive director with full responsibility for your program? Don’t miss the Leadership Experience 2026 — a transformative opportunity to invest in your leadership journey. Enhance your ability to respond with the clarity, courage, and strategic adaptability today’s leaders need most. Through peer engagement, thought-provoking plenaries, an interactive panel, and guidance from thought leaders, you’ll sharpen your ability to lead with purpose and agility.

The Application deadline is December 5, 2025.

The National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety partners with Illuminate Colorado to provide free training and materials. They also bring the Conversation Guide for Professionals on Substance Use, Children, and Families to Head Start staff. The Conversation Guide is a tool that provides ideas and resources to help professionals use strength-based conversations when working with families. The Guide focuses on helping professionals address substance use, safe and engaged caregiving, and protective factors that promote child and family well-being.

These office hours orient new health managers to the knowledge, skills, and practices needed to establish and oversee Head Start health services. Learn how the Health Manager Orientation Guide and the Head Start Health Services Competencies can support your  daily work. Each 90-minute session includes Q&A facilitated by experienced staff and our subject matter experts.  

If you have questions you want the group to address, please write to the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety at health@ecetta.info.

The National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety partners with Illuminate Colorado to provide free training and materials. They also bring the Conversation Guide for Professionals on Substance Use, Children, and Families to Head Start staff. The Conversation Guide is a tool that provides ideas and resources to help professionals use strength-based conversations when working with families. The Guide focuses on helping professionals address substance use, safe and engaged caregiving, and protective factors that promote child and family well-being.