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Empowering Your Board to Lead: Resources for Board Training and Orientation
Board members, whether seasoned or recently elected to the board, need tools equipping them to take on the responsibilities of overseeing a Community Action Agency (CAA)’s operations and programs. This webinar highlights new resources, developed by CAPLAW in collaboration with the Community Action Partnership, on tripartite board roles and responsibilities, one for public CAAs and the other for nonprofit CAAs, as well as a series of four guides that help boards of CAAs with Head Start programs implement specific governance requirements that overlap between the CSBG Organizational Standards and the Head Start Performance Standards.
Leading by Exemplar: Instructional Models in Head Start Programs
Leading by Exemplar: Instructional Models in Head Start Programs provides in-depth information about the instructional models of five high-performing Head Start programs from across the country. The programs highlighted in this analysis — referred to throughout as Head Start exemplars — were selected because demonstrate evidence of significant positive impacts on children’s learning.
Leading by Exemplar: Data Utilization in Head Start Programs
Leading by Exemplar: Data Utilization in Head Start Programs provides in-depth information about the data utilization practices of five high-performing Head Start programs from across the country. The programs highlighted in this analysis — referred to throughout as Head Start exemplars — were selected because they demonstrate significant positive impacts on children’s learning.
Leading by Exemplar: Lessons from Head Start Programs
Leading by Exemplar: Lessons from Head Start Programs is a synthesis of findings drawn from an in-depth analysis of five high-performing Head Start programs from across the country. The programs highlighted in this analysis — referred to throughout as Head Start exemplars — were selected because they demonstrate significant positive impacts on children’s learning.
Leading by Exemplar: Case Studies of Head Start Programs
Leading by Exemplar: Case Studies of Head Start Programs is an in-depth analysis of five high-performing Head Start programs from across the country. The programs highlighted in this analysis — referred to throughout as Head Start exemplars — were selected because they demonstrate significant positive impacts on children’s learning.
Crosswalk of the CSBG Organizational Standards and Head Start Performance Standards
This crosswalk is intended to be a practical tool for CAAs, highlighting ways that board and staff members can leverage the intersection between the two sets of requirements to demonstrate compliance with the rules of both programs.
CAAs are encouraged to use the Crosswalk, which is an editable spreadsheet, to track internal compliance efforts. The Introduction to the Crosswalk provides a brief overview of the CSBG Organizational Standards and the Head Start Performance Standards, as well as suggestions on how to use the Crosswalk.
Peer-to-Peer Series: Head Start Integration
Head Start programs often comprise a significant part of a Community Action Agency’s budget and staff. This webinar focuses on practical “how to” strategies to ensure that agencies fully integrate their Head Start programs into the overall governance, leadership, and management of the organization. Join staff from several agencies to discuss topics that include how to build relationships between the board and Policy Council, strengthen integration of Head Start with other services, build a shared sense of mission across programs, and improve collaboration on financial decision-making. This webinar is a must for any agency with a Head Start program!
Community Action & Head Start – Cases of Integration
The purpose of this publication is to share the insights from Community Action Agencies (CAAs) that successfully and proactively integrated their Head Start programs into the overall management and operations of their CAAs.
Head Start & Community Action Integration Resource Guide
This Resource Guide is meant as a companion to the “Community Action & Head Start – Cases of Integration” Publication. The publication shares insights from Community Action Agencies (CAAs) that successfully and proactively integrated their Head Start programs into the overall management and operations of their CAAs. The resource guide includes a variety of resources connected to the various topics touched on in the publication. It includes a deeper dive into Head Start Governance, Best Practice Samples from Community Action Agencies that have well integrated Head Start programs, and presentations that discuss shared governance and integration.
CSBG T/TA Resource Center
This website is a resource for the Community Action Network to access an array of information and assistance designed to support efforts in serving low income families and addressing the causes of poverty in local communities.
Head Start Program Governance Program Book
This resource contains the Head Start Act of 2007 citations that relate to program governance