acfbanner
 
 
 
 
Skip Navigation
Skip Navigation
 
Skip Navigation
 
 
Five Steps to Community Assessment: Workbook for Head Start and Early Head Start Programs Serving Hispanic and Other Emerging Populations
 

“Today the neediest children in your communities may look different from those children [and families] served in the same program forty years ago. Today it is likely that your community has experienced, or will, a shift in its demographic makeup...”. Staff who are responsible for conducting and/or analyzing community assessment data will find this workbook useful and the soon-to-come edition more inclusive of the broader Hispanic community and other emerging populations. 

To read PDF files, get Adobe Acrobat Image here.

Five Steps to Community Assessment: Workbook for Head Start and Early Head Start Programs Serving Hispanic and Other Emerging Populations

Boy blowing bubbles Ultimately, the completed CA (community assessment) report is used to make decisions and influence program planning and evaluation, both at the grantee level and the federal level through the regional office.

Community Assessments are a core component of planning for delivery of Head Start services by grantees, and a basis for funding decisions by the Regional Office. It is imperative that the document contains essential information derived from relevant, current reliable data sources. For much more read the Five Steps to Community Assessment: Workbook [PDF, 2.59MB].


 

Five Steps to Community Assessment: Workbook for Head Start and Early Head Start Programs Serving Hispanic and Other Emerging Populations. HHS/ACF/OHS. 2008. English. [PDF, 2.59MB].