News You Can Use Week of June 29 2011
DON'T LET YOUR NHSA MEMBERSHIP EXPIRE ON JULY 1st!
Visit http://www.nhsa.org/membership to find out how to renew your membership or join NHSA for the 2010-2011 membership year.
4th of July Advocacy Activities
If your community has an Independence Day parade, please be sure to have Head Start families represented and participating. You can decorate and take your yellow bus or have a friendly business invite you to their float. Take pictures and send them to us and post them to your Members of Congress' Facebook pages!
NHSA needs a few good Education Managers!!
NHSA is bringing together a group of Ed Managers/Coordinators to help us review an exciting opportunity that has popped up. It would involve taking part in one or two conference or go to meeting calls and review of some STEM material designed to provide teachers with an easy, fun approach for integrating STEM into their current curriculum. This Ed Managers Smart Group will review the material to ensure the content is developmentally appropriate and designed to meet the needs of Head Start teachers. The work will take place sometime during the next six weeks. If you are an Education Manager/Coordinator and are interested in joining the Smart Group, please contact Jane Adams at jadams@nhsa.org as soon as possible.
Attention: Head Start & Early Head Start Family Service and Home-Based Workers
There is a wonderful new service for pregnant and new mothers called text4baby. This FREE service will send 3 text messages each week to your cell phones with expert health tips to help pregnant women and new mothers through their pregnancy or newborn's first year. Did we mention that it's FREE?! To sign up, text BABY to 511411. For more information, visit www.text4baby.org.
October NHSA Training Institutes - Save the Date
You are probably planning to attend the Office of Head Start's 1st National Birth to Five Leadership Institute in Washington, October 3-5. Why not come a day early and stay a day later and stretch your training dollars by attending one of the four NHSA Training Institutes? Click here for more information.
28th Annual NHSA Parent Training Conference - Save the Date
NHSA's Annual Head Start Parent Conference is the only national parent conference that delivers high-quality training and educational opportunities to Head Start parents and those who work with or on behalf of parents. Click here for more information.
Reach Out to Your Local Business Leaders
NHSA is circulating a NEW letter to congress, signed by local business leaders. We're asking for your help to enlist local business-owners to sign it. A copy of the letter is attached. Please share this letter with local grantees, ask that they communicate to Julia Steinberger the names of individuals willing to lend their names to our efforts. Click here to download the business letter.
eCommons is up and running!
What is eCommons? It's a new resource for the Head Start and Early Head Start community to build connections, share resources and efficiently exchange ideas on how to achieve the very best for our children, families, employees and the communities we serve. Go To eCommons. Set up your profile, send us your state or regions profile...then start a discussion, share a resource, post a date. Great short support videos can be found clicking HELP, top right of the page.
Remember to Check Out NHSA's Brand New Blog
So far our blog has featured Yasmina Vinci, Executive Director of NHSA, Congresswoman and Head Start alumna Loretta Sanchez, and Head Start alumna Loukisha Smart-Pennix, Director of Children and Youth Services for the City of Chicago. This week, Head Start alumnus Chuck Mills blogs about how Head Start led him to serve his country, become a successful entrepreneur, and found and run several businesses!
Visit the blog at http://blog.nhsa.org.
Upcoming Head Start Legal Advisory Service Trainings
**The Head Start Legal Advisory Service live webinars will take a summer hiatus, but as always, our extensive library of On-Demand content on a variety of Head Start and Early Head Start topics is available over the summer at http://headstart.peachnewmedia.com/store/provider/provider09.php. **
In addition, our new schedule of webinars for the next year is now available (see below), along with great savings in our Back to School Special:
New Schedule of Live Webinars:
(8/24/11) Understanding Head Start and Early Head Start Eligibility
(10/12/11) An Overview of Head Start Monitoring
(10/26/11) Head Start Governance
(11/16/11) Program Design and Management Monitoring
(12/07/11) Eligibility, ERSEA Monitoring, and More
(1/11/12) Procurements: What You Need to Know
(2/01/12) So You Have Monitoring Findings, Now What Do You Do?
(2/15/12) Human Resources Lifecycle in Head Start
(3/07/12) Staff Qualifications and HR Policies and Procedures
(3/22/12) Unpacking Federal Employment Laws
(4/04/12) Establishing a Culture of Compliance
(4/25/12) Conducting Internal Investigations
(5/02/12) Understanding Head Start and Early Head Start Eligibility
(5/16/12) Strengthening Delegate Agency Relationships in Head Start
(5/30/12) Time & Effort Reporting and Cost Allocation
(6/13/12) Understanding Head Start and Early Head Start Eligibility
And, don't forget our On-Demand Governance Boot Camp for Boards and Policy Councils, created in 20-30 minute increments so your governing bodies can watch bits at different meetings.
Click here for more information and to register:
http://headstart.peachnewmedia.com/store/provider/provider09.php