Watch these professional development sessions for Head Start staff. They are designed to support eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and  attendance (ERSEA) priorities in a changing landscape.

Learn how to effectively partner with families of children with disabilities. This partnership not only promotes children’s learning and development, but also supports family learning, advocacy, and leadership skills.

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.

Programs can use this resource, created in partnership with parents, to guide the development of their family engagement strategies and parent leadership opportunities.

Promoting simple but effective ways to support one’s own wellness can contribute to the wellness of individuals who work with families, the overall program, and the families served.

Review strategies to support the wellness of family services professionals and home visitors; the resource is written for program supervisors and leaders as well as family services staff and home visitors themselves.

Program leaders play an essential role in creating a healthy workplace by supporting policies and practices that minimize staff stress and burnout, promote staff wellness, and support high-quality family engagement.

Read these examples of respecting the privacy and confidentiality of families to strengthen relationships and trust. Then explore reflective questions to strengthen this practice.

Explore these examples of connecting with other community organizations to help families access supports outside of Head Start. Then ask reflective questions to strengthen this practice.

Read examples of supporting families to develop specific short- and long-term goals for well-being, along with reflective questions to strengthen this practice.