DEPARTMENT: Human Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Melody Woosley
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Head Start Briefing and Approval Items
SUMMARY:
This item presents the following Head Start grants items:
1. 2016-2017 Department of Human Services Head Start Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance (ERSEA) Policy updates for approval
2. 2016-2017 Department of Human Services Head Start Shared Governance Training
3. Program and Fiscal Briefing for December 2016
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requires that recipients of Head Start grants provide monthly briefings on program and fiscal activities and ongoing training throughout the program year to their governing bodies. The Neighborhoods and Livability Committee and the Head Start Policy Council provide shared governance oversight of the Department of Human Services (DHS) Head Start and Early Head Start grants.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Department of Human Services (DHS) Head Start and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant programs are federally funded programs administered by HHS. The programs provide early childhood education, family support, and comprehensive support services to eligible children between the ages of six weeks and five years, and their families.
The Head Start Program serves children at or below the federal poverty line and prioritizes the most vulnerable children, including those with disabilities, experiencing homelessness, and children in the foster care system. The program serves a total of 3,020 children: 777 children in the Edgewood Independent School District (EISD) and 2,243 children in the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD). As the program grantee, DHS provides direct program management, oversight, training and technical assistance, governance, family support and mental wellness services and contracts with EISD and SAISD for the provision of educational and disability services, the Metropolitan Heal...
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