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45 CFR 1304.40(g)(1)&(2) Parent Involvement in Community Advocacy
 
Abstract

The active involvement of parents in advocacy and activities with other community members develops self-esteem and builds skills, while helping to organize and enhance community services and resources that best respond to parents’ needs and interests.


45 CFR 1304.40(g)(1)&(2) Parent Involvement in Community Advocacy

[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2005]
[CITE: 45CFR1304.40] [Page 129-132]
TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1304_PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR THE OPERATION OF HEAD START PROGRAMS BY GRANTEE AND DELEGATE AGENCIES--Table of Contents
Subpart C_Family and Community Partnerships

Sec. 1304.40 Family partnerships.


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(1) Grantee and delegate agencies must:

(i) Support and encourage parents to influence the character and goals of community services in order to make them more responsive to their interests and needs; and

(ii) Establish procedures to provide families with comprehensive information about community resources (see 45 CFR 1304.41(a)(2) for additional requirements).

    (2) Parents must be provided regular opportunities to work together, and with other community members, on activities that they have helped develop and in which they have expressed an interest.


    45 CFR 1304.40(g)(1)&(2) Parent Involvement in Community Advocacy. Program Performance Standards for the Operation of Head Start Programs by Grantee and Delegate Agencies. 2005.  English.


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