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.
Explore Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance (ERSEA) systems to help programs enroll the neediest families in a timely manner. Find tips and questions to stay at full enrollment all year.
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.
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.
Director Garvin discusses how local programs can reserve slots to be more responsive to children experiencing homelessness and children in foster care.
This ERSEA Essentials video describes key strategies Head Start programs should consider as they enroll eligible families.
Watch this webinar to learn about the Full Enrollment Initiative and how it can help your Head Start program achieve and maintain full enrollment.
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.
Watch Tala Hooban, acting director of the Office of Head Start, and Yolanda Motley, program officer for Early Learning Services at Clover Head Start, spread some #HeadStartLove during Tala's site visit to Clover.
Log Number: ACF-IM-HS-22-09 | Issuance Date: 11-07-2022
In the Enrollment Forward in 10 Minutes videos, grant recipients share program approaches to workforce recruiting and identifying eligible children to receive Head Start services.