(a) All Head Start grantees must provide
comprehensive child development services, as defined in the Head Start
Performance Standards.
(b) All Head Start grantees must provide classroom or group socialization
activities for the child as well as home visits to the parents. The major
purpose of the classroom or socialization activities is to help meet the
child's development needs and to foster the child's social competence. The
major purpose of the home visits is to enhance the parental role in the growth
and development of the child.
(c) The facilities used by Early Head Start and Head Start grantee and
delegate agencies for regularly scheduled centerbased and combination
program option classroom activities or homebased group socialization
activities must comply with State and local requirements concerning
licensing. In cases where these licensing standards are less comprehensive or
less stringent than the Head Start regulations, or where no State or local
licensing standards are applicable, grantee and delegate agencies are required
to assure that their facilities are in compliance with the Head Start Program
Performance Standards related to health and safety as found in 45 CFR
1304.53(a), Physical environment and facilities.
(d) All grantees must identify, secure and use
community resources in the provision of services to Head Start children and
their families prior to using Head Start funds for these
services.
[57 FR 58092, Dec. 8, 1992, as amended at 61 FR 57226, Nov. 5, 1996; 63 FR
2314, Jan. 15, 1998]
