ERSEA Institute 2022
Watch these professional development sessions for Head Start staff. They are designed to support eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance (ERSEA) priorities in a changing landscape.
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Recruitment
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
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
Explore outreach and recruitment strategies and tips, including using community assessment data and equity considerations for ERSEA.
Head Start and Refugee Resettlement Programs’ Communications Guide
Explore this communications guide to increase collaboration between Head Start and Refugee Resettlement programs.
Urban Program Spotlight on Serving McKinney-Vento–eligible Families
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
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
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.
Achieving Full Enrollment
Watch this video blog from Dr. Deborah Bergeron to learn strategies programs can use to maintain full enrollment all year long.
Recruiting and Enrolling Children
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.
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.
