National Head Start Association

NHSA Leadership Skills, Policy, and Advocacy Institutes - October, 2011

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington D.C.

Don't miss these extraordinary training events, offered in conjunction with and scheduled the day before and the day following the Office of Head Start Birth to Five Leadership Institute in Washington, D.C.

Skills Institutes * A Special Celebration * Policy and Advocacy Institute * Visits to Members of Congress

To register, click here. 

Download a registration form here. 

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October 2 Skills Institutes

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9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
$89 NHSA Member/$109 Non Member

Go Green Head Start!

Head Start agencies can Go Green to improve the environment and children's health, while saving critical funds! Work with national experts in early education facilities, learn to use proven tools to advance maintenance strategies, and learn from peers who are seeing results every day from green strategies. Read the full description here.

What Do They Hear You Saying? Communications in The Real-Time World

Work with nationally renowned media and  communications professionals who also have Head Start experience. Take away cutting-edge skills and knowledge in media relations, crisis communications, innovative marketing strategies, and social media. This Institute includes extensive hands-on social media work. Read more here.

Connections for Success: Ready, Set, Go!

Join a group of practitioners from the Head Start community who have been building a tool that aligns the Framework and Common Core Standards for K.  You will take away specific strategies, tools, and knowledge to support your work with LEAs to improve children's transitions to public schools. Read more here.

October 5: Celebrating Head Start’s Window of Opportunity for Young Children and Families

7:00 – 9:00 pm

This evening reception will be hosted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, a major center of American art, located across from the South Lawn of the White House. The Gallery's spectacular Beaux-Arts facility houses the capital's oldest art museum. 

We will celebrate the vitality of our community and the Window of Opportunity Head Start is for millions of vulnerable children and families.

A highlight of the evening will be a private tour of the new Exhibit, 30 Americans, showcasing works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. Learn more...

October 5, 6: Policy and Advocacy Institute

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
$169 NHSA Member/$199 Non Member

For a change of pace, we're offering a special Advocacy-Half-Day-on-the-Hill followed by two concurrent full-day tracks. The Early Childhood Policy Track will focusing on broad policy developments and their long-term implications for Head Start.  The Head Start Advocacy track will grapple with why it is the responsibility of everyone involved with Head Start to engage in keeping this window of opportunity open for every child. It will also provide hands-on training to use tactics from proven models of successful and innovative advocacy.

 Early Childhood Policy Track

 The advocacy track will engage participants in:

• The Latest Legislative News;
• Advocacy Do's and Don'ts for Head Start Parents, Staff and Directors; and
• Effective Tactics Made Easy.

To register, click here. 

Download a registration form here.

For hotel reservations, Click here.