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.
Use this tool to determine your program's readiness for planning and implementing an Early Head Start or Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program.
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.
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.
Planning systems occur in a continuous cycle and involve key members of the Head Start community. The outcome of this cycle is the creation of achievable goals and short-term program and fiscal objectives.
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.