Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
HEAD START RESOURCES
EARLY HEAD START/CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP RESOURCES
- Early Head Start–Child Care Partnerships: Spotlighting Early Successes Across America (Bipartisan Policy Center, 2019)
- Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships: Lessons Learned 1st Year (2016)
- Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership FOA (June 2016)
- Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Toolkit
- Policy & Program Guidance
- Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Overview (Office of Early Childhood Development)
- National Center on Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
- More Frequently Asked Questions -- BUILD Initiative, Yvette Sanchez Fuentes (President for the National Alliance for Hispanic Families, formerly the Director of the Office of Head Start at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)
- Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC)
- National Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) System Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Program Design and Planning
- Early Head Start National Resource Center
- National Center on Program Management and Fiscal Operations
- Head Start Performance Standards Support Documents
- Head Start Federal Statute (PL 110-134): Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007
- State Staff:Child Licensing Ratios vs Early Head Start Ratios
- Final Head Start Performance Standards (September 2016)
- Effective Dates
HHS TOOLKIT FOR APPLICANTS
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
The FY2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 113 -76) provided $500 million for Early Head Start/Child Care Partnerships. Funded projects are listed here.
In December of 2015, the FY2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 114-113) included an increase of $135 million for EHS-CCP grants. The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), a competition for the new EHS-CCP funds, was held and award announcements should be made soon.
Misc. EHS-CCP Resources
EARLY HEAD START RESEARCH BRIEFS
- RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: Early Head Start Benefits Children and Families Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
- RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: Program Models in Early Head Start Early Head Start Reserach and Evaluation Project
- RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: Child Care, Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
- RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: How the Performance Standards Support New Early Head Start Programs: Lessons Learned from Research. Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project
- HHS, Office of Head Start - Additional Research Publications
HEAD START & EARLY HEAD START DATA
- Head Start Program National Stats (2019)
- Head Start Program State Stats (2019)
- FY2019 HHS Head Start fact sheet (program participation and funding)
Find Head Start and Early Head Start in your state: (Searchable Database)
A Roadmap for Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (Bipartisan Policy Center, November 2022)
Bipartisan Policy Center, Early Head Start–Child Care Partnerships: Spotlighting Early Successes Across America
Everybody Benefits: Family Child Care Providers’ Perspectives on Partnering with Early Head Start (All Our Kin, 2018)
Early Head Start–Child Care Partnership Model Evaluation Brief (Early Learning Ventures, 2018)
Home Grown, Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Resources for Applicants (August 2020)
Extending the Benefits of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships for Children and Families (Child Trends, May 2020)
Office of Head Start - Head Start Enterprise System (PIR)
- The Long-term Impact of Head Start (Brookings, 2016)
