NHSA Government Affairs Updates 
NHSA's Government Affairs Update is now included in the bi-weekly electronic publication News You Can Use, providing comprehensive, timely, and insightful information on legislative issues facing Head Start.
News You Can Use Issues are here.
01/03/2011
Building a Home for Head Start
The arrival of many new lawmakers in Washington, DC presents the Head Start/Early Head Start community with a unique opportunity to create and influence modern champions.
NHSA's government affairs efforts - in partnership with affiliates, our members and our partners are asking the Head Start community to join us in an intensive and vital initiative - The Campaign to Build a Home for Head Start in the New Congress - to reach Members of Congress with our messages, continue to build stronger relationships with our returning Members, and create relationships with new Members.
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Government Affairs Update Week of December 3, 2010
Earlier this week, we sent out an alert requesting the Head Start community to go to theSupport Head Start websiteand send a letter to Congress and the White House urging support for Head Start funding. In just 4 days, you sent over 7,000 letters to Congress and over 2,000 letters to the White House. EXCELLENT WORK!
If you have not submitted your letter yet, it is not too late to do so…in fact this is the perfect time to do it! As Congress delayed the final decision on FY2011 appropriation, the next two weeks are vital for getting your voice heard and influencing the end result.Click here to visit the site. The steps are very, very easy and it literally takes only a minute. Then get as many parents and friends of Head Start to weigh in!
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Government Affairs Update Week of November 12, 2010
The Administration for Children and Families published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to establish a system of designation renewal (re-competition) of Head Start and Early Head Start grantees. NHSA is currently reviewing the proposed regulation and developing our comments on it. We have also created a re-competition toolkit that provides considerable resources for understanding the upcoming re-competition requirements and provides tools for participating in the regulation-making process.
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Government Affairs Update Week of October 25, 2010
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is Recipient of The Dream Lives on Alumni Award
On September 22, hundreds of Head Start teachers who started to work with the children of poverty in 1965, visionary public servants who designed the model that has had lasting results, Head Start parents whose lives were transformed, and children for whom Head Start was the first step toward a life of success, gathered for an evening of stories and celebration. A special highlight of NHSA's Celebration of Head Start's 45th Anniversary was presenting the Dream Lives On Alumni Award to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.
You can watch Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez receiving the Dream Lives On Award here.
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Government Affairs Update Week of October 1, 2010
LAST WEEK'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
Just when we thought that our semi-annual Leadership Institute could not get any better-- it DID. What happened this September? It was a heady combination of a redesigned format, enhanced visits to the Hill (and breakfast with Senators Voinovich and Dodd), fabulous presenters addressing the most cutting-edge issues (from immigration to measurement of outcomes to the new language of Head Start), culminating serendipitously with a set of important announcements by the Office of Head Start Director Sanchez-Fuentes and her staff. It was magic.
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