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Enrollment

Teacher or volunteer helping children to make a necklace with beads.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.

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.

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.

Reserving Slots

Director Garvin discusses how local programs can reserve slots to be more responsive to children experiencing homelessness and children in foster care.

Full Enrollment Initiative

Watch this webinar to learn about the Full Enrollment Initiative and how it can help your Head Start program achieve and maintain full enrollment.

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.

Love for Head Start

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.