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Recruitment

Family at the playground. These resources support recruitment as a year-round, systematic process with specific efforts to actively locate and recruit children with disabilities, children experiencing homelessness or living in foster care, and other vulnerable children.

For more ERSEA resources, check out eligibility, selection, enrollment, and attendance.

Select Talent Acquisition for resources related to staff recruitment.

Sesame Workshop Videos for Head Start Staff and Families

Wed, 12/20/2023 - 09:40

Use these videos to acknowledge the hard work of Head Start program staff, and to help families learn more about the comprehensive Head Start health and early learning services.

Outreach and Recruitment

Mon, 02/05/2024 - 16:37

Explore outreach and recruitment strategies and tips, including using community assessment data for ERSEA.

Head Start and Refugee Resettlement Programs’ Communications Guide

Tue, 11/12/2024 - 15:27

Explore this communications guide to increase collaboration between Head Start and Refugee Resettlement programs.

Urban Program Spotlight on Serving McKinney-Vento–eligible Families

Tue, 12/10/2024 - 15:28

Watch this webinar to hear urban Head Start programs discuss their effective family and community partnership strategies for McKinney-Vento–eligible families.

Family-centered Considerations for ERSEA

Tue, 04/08/2025 - 13:23

Make sure your eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) policies and procedures respond to the unique strengths and needs of families in your community.

Recruitment: Developing Effective Outreach Systems

Wed, 07/18/2018 - 16:49

Recruiting for Head Start programs is a systematic year-round process. These strategies and guiding questions help programs manage data-informed and measurable recruitment efforts.

Recruiting and Enrolling Children

Fri, 03/06/2020 - 16:52

This chapter describes the process of recruiting and enrolling children with disabilities or suspected delays in your program and the regulations that apply.

1302.13 Recruitment of children.

Sun, 08/21/2016 - 17:50

Programs must develop and implement a process to locate and recruit eligible children in their services area. Review this standard to learn about specific recruitment areas and how to serve special populations.