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A Week on Active Supervision: Keeping Children Safe

Unsupervised children within the Head Start and Early Head Start setting is a serious issue. Programs are responsible for ensuring that children are supervised in classrooms, playgrounds, buses, and field trips. OHS Acting Director Ann Linehan sends a reminder to programs of their obligation to ensure infants, toddlers, and preschool age children are safe and supervised at all times.

Building Bridges Between Healthy Marriage, Responsible Fatherhood, and Domestic Violence Programs

For some time, the people working in the fields of domestic violence (DV), healthy marriage (HM), and responsible fatherhood (RF) had very little interaction and limited understanding of other clients’ experiences, perspectives, philosophies, values, and activities. Social service providers and policymakers will benefit from the information included in this guide developed from the Building Bridges conference that brought together 30 individuals from these fields to discuss ideas and experiences designed to increase cooperation and collaboration between their programs. Included in this guide are promising practices that aim to help HM, RF, and DV programs work together.

Emergency Response and Recovery

These materials have been compiled to provide resources to Head Start programs and parents in supporting the children and families in areas disrupted by disasters. Programs play a critical role in providing stability, safety, nurturing, and access to resources.

Exemptions

Watch this video to hear program leaders talk about how they have managed staff exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement.

Head Start Forward: Health and Safety Considerations

Listen to the fourth webinar in the five-part Head Start Forward series for important health and safety considerations, guidance, and support programs can use as they work toward full enrollment and fully in-person comprehensive services.

Head Start Heals: Frequently Asked Questions

These handouts cover frequently asked questions from the Head Start Heals campaign and related office hours. Find links to additional resources on stress, resilience, and providing support.