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.

Health Manager Networks Fostering Leadership
Health manager networks promote improvement by building relationships among those in similar positions across Head Start and Early Head Start programs. These networks are more likely to be sustained when there is shared leadership. Three leaders, Rashanda Jenkins from Virginia, and Eric Vaughn and Peggy Kelly from Kansas, describe ways their state Head Start Associations foster health manager network leaders.

Getting Started: Health Manager Networks
Find tips on the benefits of networking and starting and building a sustainable health manager network in your area.

What Works: Health Manager Networks
Learn successful strategies employed by leaders of thriving health manager networks.

Additional Resources

Weaving Connections
Use this resource to help plan, recruit, engage, and evaluate the work of the Health Services Advisory Committee.

The Medical Home and Head Start Working Together
Use this handout to introduce Head Start to local health care providers and share the benefits of medical home and Head Start partnerships.

Last Updated: June 21, 2023