Head Start and Early Head Start Services for McKinney Vento Children – Updates and Resources from the PA HSSCO

OHS Home at Head Start

Home at Head Start Institute (Virtual): May 7-9, 2024, 11 am-5 pm each day

• Director Garvin will kick it off.
• Three tracks: Families and Children, Programs, and Community
• They are very interested in featuring grant recipients.
• More information about the Institute can be found here.
• Click here for Institute Registration

• The National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement (NCPFCE) is collecting promising practices from HS and EHS grantees on supporting children and families experiencing homelessness. Information on promising practices can be shared in this form. Please consider sharing some of your successful strategies with the NCPFCE!

• How do you invite a family to discuss housing? What are some key words or phrases that you should look for? What are suggested clarifying questions? Resources coming soon from NCPFCE!

• For consideration - what are trigger words (determine) and helpful words in your community? This is going to vary from regions to region, community to community. 

PA HSSCO Updates and Resources

• PA HSSCO State Brief updated: State-Level Brief Update, A Call to Action: Participation of Young Children Experiencing Homelessness and Young Children in Foster Care in Early Childhood Programs in Pennsylvania

• SchoolHouse Connection (SHC) webinar: Evicting Children: How Babies Bear the Brunt of the Affordable Housing Crisis and What we can Do
• Webinar recording
• Webinar slides
• Eviction Lab Who is Evicted in America (data, analysis and links to additional resources and articles)
• Peer reviewed article: The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000-2019

• **NEW** SHC Slack Channel. You can join the SHC Community on Slack here

• New study from NC State and Mary Haskett: In parents’ words: Reflections on the social-emotional health system for young children experiencing homelessness.

• Supporting Young Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness. Interactive learning modules from ECLKC

• Self-Assessment Tool for Early Childhood Programs Serving Families Experiencing Homelessness

• Childproofing Checklist for Housing and Homeless Service Providers