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Head Start State Collaboration Office | Department of Education Head Start State Collaboration Office Head Start Organizational Structure History of Head Start State Collaboration Office Head Start State Collaboration Offices (HSSCO) facilitate partnerships between Head Start agencies and other state entities that provide services to benefit low-income children and their families.
HSSCO are awarded funds under Section 642B of the 2007 Head Start Act.
Early Head Start (birth to 3 years) Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (birth to 3 years) Head Start Preschool (age 3 to 5 years) Find a Head Start Program in Iowa Create a visible presence for Head Start at the State level to support development and sustainability of collaborative partnerships between multi-agency, public-private partnerships and stake-holders to ensure children in Head Start are receiving comprehensive services to prepare the children for elementary school.
Coordinate federal, state and local policy to help ensure a unified early care and education system and strengthen family and community environments. Support building of early childhood systems, access to comprehensive services and support for all low-income children. Facilitate the involvement of Head Start in State policies, plans, processes, and decisions affecting the Head Start target populations and other low-income families.
Increase Head Start’s capacity to be a partner in State initiatives and local grassroots efforts to better conduct outreach on behalf of children and their families to enhance program quality. Foster and enhance widespread collaboration between Head Start and other appropriate programs, services, and initiatives.
Enable Head Start communities to better access professional development opportunities for staff including meeting degree requirements and increased accessibility to higher education. Assist Head Start agencies to align curricula and assessments used in Head Start programs with the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework and, as appropriate, State early learning standards. Head Start Act Sec.
642B Head Start Collaboration: State Early Education and Care In 2023, the Office of Head Start updated the priority areas to guide the work of the HSSCO: Collaborate with state systems to align early care and education services and supports for children and families prenatally to age 5.
Support the comprehensive service Head Start provides to children including categorical eligibility areas of foster care, homelessness, and families receiving SNAP/FIP benefits. Work with state efforts to collect and use data on early childhood programs to guide decision-making and improve child and family outcomes. Support the expansion of and access to high-quality workforce and career development opportunities for staff.
Coordinate with school systems to ensure continuity and alignment across programs, as appropriate. State and Regional Priorities According to the Head Start Act, HSSCOs "facilitate collaboration among Head Start agencies and entities which carry out activities designed to benefit low-income children from birth to school entry, and their families ( Sec. 642(B)(a)(2)(A) )."
Head Start Organizational Structure Federal: Head Start is administered by the Office of Head Start , the Administration on Young Children Youth and Families (ACYF), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . Head Start programs deliver services through 1,600 agencies in local communities. Most Head Start programs are run by non-profit organizations, schools, and community action agencies.
They provide services to more than a million children every year in every U.S. state and territory. (2020) Regional: Grants are awarded by the ACYF’s Regional Offices directly to public agencies, private organizations, Indian Tribes and school systems which are called “recipients” to operate Head Start program(s) at the local (community) level. Head Start is funded Federal to Local.
Iowa is part of OHS Midwest Region located in Kansas City. HSSCO do not provide any oversight to the Head Start programs. The HSSCO is designed to facilitate partnerships between Head Start agencies and other state and local entities that provide services to benefit low-income children and their families.
HSSCOs are awarded funds under the Head Start Act Sec. 642B Head Start Collaboration: State Early Education and Care . Iowa Head Start Association’s mission is to enhance the capacity of its members to promote and advocate for a wide variety of quality services for all of Iowa’s children and families.
Local: There are currently 18 recipients crossing almost every county in the State of Iowa operating Early Head Start, Head Start Preschool and/or EHS-CCP programming. (2021) History of Head Start State Collaboration Office When was the Iowa HSSCO established?
Since 1990, the Head Start Bureau has funded HSSCO grants to create the capacity to support the development of multi-agency and public/private partnerships at the State level as part of the Head Start Act (Public Law 105-285; Section 640(a)(5)). The Iowa HSSCO was established through these funds in 1993, and placed in the Iowa Department of Education by the governor.
Grants for the HSSCO are awarded as five-year projects and renewed annually currently at $125,000.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.