Recruitment: Developing Effective Outreach Systems
Recruiting for Head Start programs is a systematic year-round process. These strategies and guiding questions help programs manage data-informed and measurable recruitment efforts.
Recruitment
These resources support recruitment as a year-round, systematic process with specific efforts to actively locate and recruit children with disabilities, children experiencing homelessness or living in foster care, and other vulnerable children.
For more ERSEA resources, check out eligibility, selection, enrollment, and attendance.
Select Talent Acquisition for resources related to staff recruitment.
ERSEA Essentials Video Series
These animated videos describe best practices for crafting and implementing responsive ERSEA services.
ERSEA: Strengthening Family and Community Engagement Practices for Recruitment
In this video, explore research-based strategies for intentional recruitment in Head Start programs and communities.
Dual Language Learners: Family Recruitment and Engagement Strategies
In this video, learn about strategies for recruiting families with children who are dual language learners.
Marketing Strategies to Enhance Recruitment
This video explores marketing tools and recruitment strategies you can use in your enrollment efforts.
Recruitment: Engaging Families Who Are New to the United States
This video reviews Office of Head Start priorities and connects them with the recruitment and enrollment of families who are new to the United States.
Relationships with Families: A Story That Starts with Recruitment
This video shows a powerful story, as told by a Head Start parent and family support staff, that demonstrates how relationships laid the foundation for partnerships in recruitment and sustainability of a local program.
ERSEA Institute 2022
Watch these professional development sessions for Head Start and Early Head Start staff. They are designed to support eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) priorities in a changing landscape.
Family Recruitment Video and Implementation Guide
Head Start programs can use the video Head Start Cares About Your Whole Family to recruit new families. Review this guidance for how to integrate the video into your recruitment strategies.
Head Start Awareness Month Digital Toolkit
Use this social media toolkit to spread the word about the important work Head Start programs do to support America's children and families.