Use social media to promote your Head Start services, enroll families, and recruit staff. Learn how to develop a social media plan, best practices, and ways to tailor platforms to showcase your program.
These training resources offer Head Start leaders the skills, strategies, and knowledge they need to implement successful, responsive programs.
Find resources to help design and distribute Head Start reports and manage recordkeeping activities.
Learn how to build communication and information systems that connect all stakeholders and promote Head Start services.
Know how to maintain the technology in your program needed to monitor continuous improvement and increase reliance on data collection and analysis.
Identify the duties and rules related to a Head Start program’s Policy Council, management staff, and governing body/Tribal Council.
The Governance Readiness Assessment helps organizations review their processes. Governing bodies can use it to assess their capacity to oversee and monitor a Head Start program.
This screener identifies ways to improve program governance and build leadership capacity. The accompanying form certifies that programs conducted the required screening.
Grantees and delegate agencies will find this resource useful when documenting volunteer services. An agency's volunteer services should be documented similarly as for its employees, including time and attendance records or activity sheets.
Explore these resources to learn more about Head Start history, legal and fiscal responsibilities, and how to build an effective governance system.