Workforce Policies in the Updated Head Start Program Performance Standards
Watch this webinar for a deep dive into the workforce standards that increase wages and benefits for Head Start educators and other staff.
Workplace Equity
Use these resources to reinforce the organization’s commitment to operating ethically. This includes building a culture that demonstrates diversity, inclusion, and equity to improve the quality of life for everyone in the workplace and their families.
Updates to the Performance Standards: Nurturing the Promise
Watch this webinar for a detailed review of changes to the Performance Standards around staff wages, benefits, wellness, child safety, and more. It also features implementation strategies and timelines.
Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming
Watch this webinar for an overview of changes to the Performance Standards that respond to concerns affecting Head Start programs. It also introduces the "Nurturing the Promise" campaign to support implementation.
Staff Diversity Matters
Learn about the value of the reflecting the cultures of the community in the recruitment, hiring, and support of program staff. Review strategies that build program capacity to reflect and affirm community culture.
Supporting a Diverse Early Childhood Workforce: Lessons Learned from a Community of Practice
Learn more how the structure of a virtual community of practice (CoP) helped participants discover key components needed to support a diverse early childhood education workforce.
Supporting Diverse Populations Within the Early Childhood Workforce Podcast
Learn ways to support early childhood staff from diverse backgrounds. Hear about resources that can help programs better serve children and families from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Supporting Diverse Populations Within the Early Childhood Workforce
Use this resource to learn how to support a diverse early childhood education workforce as it serves children and families from diverse backgrounds. Find state examples, toolkits, presentations, and more.
Affirmative Action and Head Start
Program managers need to be aware of the different laws that impact the hiring process, whether it is for full-time or part-time employees, or for staff working under contract. This fact sheet looks at federal policies related to Affirmative Action and employment hiring.
Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act
Program directors and human resource managers can use this fact sheet to ensure that their personnel policies do not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities, particularly in job application procedures.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Grantees and delegates agencies will find this resource beneficial in developing their personnel policies and procedures.