Enrollment and the Family Partnership Process
Explore the role of family services professionals in the enrollment and family partnership processes, including tips for the family assessment and caring conversations with families.
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Enrollment
These resources cover everything about enrollment. Through proactive planning, programs can make sure they maintain their funded enrollment level and fill vacancies swiftly.
For more ERSEA resources, check out eligibility, recruitment, selection, and attendance.
FAQs About the 10% Enrollment Requirement
Head Start programs are expected to ensure that 10% of their actual enrollment are children eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Find answers to common questions here.
Calculating 10% Actual Enrollment for Disability Requirement
Guidance for Head Start program leaders on calculating the 10% actual enrollment requirement for children with disabilities to meet the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandate.
Making Enrollment and Engagement Accessible to Families
Explore strategies for making enrollment and engagement communications and processes more accessible to families.
Identifying Barriers to Enrollment: Transportation
Resource for Head Start programs on addressing transportation barriers to enrollment and attendance. Includes regulatory requirements, transportation options, and success stories to help programs serve children most in need.
Family-centered Considerations for ERSEA
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.
Addressing Vacant Slots Due to Chronic Absenteeism in Head Start Programs
This IM clarifies when Head Start programs should consider a slot vacant after long-term absences, and offers strategies programs improve attendance.
Supporting Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness
This learning series includes two interactive Individualized Professional Development Portfolio courses to enhance your understanding of homelessness. Learn how to identify, enroll, and support children and families with unstable living situations.
Full Enrollment Initiative
This PI states the importance of full enrollment. It outlines the right of OHS to designate an agency as Chronically Underenrolled and recapture, withhold, or reduce the base grant for programs not fully enrolled.
Enrollment: Creating Systems for Filling Every Seat
Explore ERSEA systems to help programs enroll the neediest families in a timely manner. Find tips and questions to stay at full enrollment all year.
