Health Services Management
New and experienced staff will find professional development tools to help keep children safe, healthy, and ready to learn.
As part of Head Start’s comprehensive services, every Head Start and Early Head Start program provides services to promote health, behavioral health, and safety for children and families. New and experienced health services staff can use these resources to learn more about health services and the role of health services staff. This topic area also includes professional development resources for health services staff, child care health consultants, and others who support health services across all early care and education settings.
New and experienced staff will find professional development tools to help keep children safe, healthy, and ready to learn.
Learn about the medical home and why it's important to connect families so their child can receive continuous, accessible medical care.
This section is designed for child care providers and health consultants. These resources can be used to help ensure safe, healthy, and high-quality settings for all children.
Learn about health literacy and how to help families obtain, process, and understand basic health information and health care services to make good health choices.
Health managers can use these tools when engaging their health manager networks. Find materials discussing the benefits of these networks, as well as other resources to use in your daily work.
Good attendance leads to lifelong learning and positive habits necessary for school and work. When young children are chronically absent from Head Start, Early Head Start, or child care, often they are likely to continue to be chronically absent in elementary school.