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Review flexibilities for meeting required staff qualifications so that family child care can remain a viable and important program option for Head Start grant recipients.

Join us in celebrating six decades of programs inspired by Head Start values — empowering families, inspiring educators, and building brighter futures for over 40 million children.

Explore resources to learn American Sign Language (ASL) signs, gain insights on the benefits of ASL for children’s development, and learn strategies for integrating ASL into your learning environments.

American Sign Language (ASL) supports the learning of all infants and toddlers. Learn strategies for teaching and using ASL with young children and their families.

This tip sheet describes how to find out if your building has lead paint and how to reduce the risk of lead exposure for children.

Encourage children to explore their senses, stretch fine motor skills, and be creative using materials of different colors, textures, sizes, and more. What can children mold, manipulate, stack, arrange, pattern, color, or imagine as they explore 3D art?

This resource outlines critical questions and data to consider as part of the planning and development for a locally-designed program option variation (LDO) waiver request.

This framework uses a house to represent five integral elements of quality teaching and learning for children ages birth to 5 in all program options.

The Office of Head Start recently released ACF-OHS-IM-25-03 Promoting Healthy Eating and Nutrition for Head Start Children and Families. Here’s what you need to know about what it means for your program.