Annual Community Assessment Update Considerations
Assess significant community changes, including regulatory updates, that could affect program operations and service delivery.
Program Planning Systems
Agencies aiming to deliver Head Start services must carefully craft and execute their programs. Use these materials to discover how effective planning practices ensure programs stay attuned to community needs. Learn how setting clear program goals, objectives, outcomes, and action plans can enhance child and family outcomes. Get insights and examples illustrating how to monitor progress toward achieving family outcomes.
Dive into a toolbox of resources that can readily bolster your program's strategic planning.
Sustainability Planning and Head Start Programs
Explore sustainability strategies that can help programs thrive in the face of anticipated and unexpected opportunities and challenges.
Readiness for Change Assessment Tool
Use this tool to engage teams in discussions that gauge their thinking and readiness to move forward with a change initiative.
How the Planning Cycle Helped a Program Achieve a Key Goal
This Management Minute video shares how one Head Start program used the program planning cycle to achieve a key goal.
Foundations for Excellence
Review a range of planning topics to support programs’ successful completion of the Head Start grant application, and to ensure programming is responsive to community needs throughout the five-year grant period.
Make the Most of Program Planning and Service System Design
Learn how program planning and service system design guides Head Start programs through their five-year grant. This system design includes service plans that directly impact children and families.
Management Systems Wheel
The Head Start Management Systems Wheel is a visual representation of the 12 program management, planning, and oversight systems that are critical to high-quality service delivery.