Head Start 101 Toolkit

Head Start 101
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     With this leadership training activity program, participants gain an understanding of how Head Start has evolved over time and the ways in which the program's core values are reflected in its services. Program administration and funding are addressed also. This section is a select segment from the Moving Ahead curriculum.

Head Start Act
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/Program%20Design%20and%20Management/
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     The intent of the legislation is to "promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of low-income children through the provision, to low-income children and their families, of health, educational, nutritional, social, and other services that are determined, based on family needs assessments, to be necessary."

Head Start Program Performance Standards
http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/Program%20Design%20and%20Management/
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     The Head Start Program Performance Standards are the mandatory regulations that grantees and delegate agencies must implement in order to operate a Head Start program. The standards define the objectives and features of a quality Head Start program in concrete terms; they articulate a vision of service delivery to young children and families; and they provide a regulatory structure for the monitoring and enforcement of quality standards.