Starting an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership
Explore the resources on this page to learn how to begin or expand services for children and families through an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership.
Explore the resources on this page to learn how to begin or expand services for children and families through an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership.
Explore this collection of grantee-focused stories and news articles from across the nation.
Explore this series of Office Hours videos and tools to assist you in working with your Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnership.
Read findings, analyses, assessments, and reports about the benefits of successful collaborations between Head Start and Early Head Start programs, and child care providers.
Meeting fiscal challenges, and managing, training, and supporting early care and education staff across programs and systems ensures successful partnerships. Resources in this area include information and tools related to: Making financial decisions; contracts and formal agreements; child care subsidies; human resource policy and legal issues; and staff management.
Learn why family and community engagement are key aspects of successful Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships, in this final issue of Making Connections: The Partnership Newsletter.
The resources in this section can help partners build relationships that work well and enable them to meet their goals.
Watch these EHS-CC Partnership grantees and partners share how their individualized approaches to early childhood education systems using the strength of Early Head Start benefit children, families, and staff.
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.