Areas of Work

Head Start Collaboration Project
Services to Children who are Homeless

Homeless Education Advisory Committee

The State Collaboration Project Director is a member of the State Education Department’s Committee on Homeless Education. One of the goals of the Committee is to facilitate improved linkages between schools and early care and education programs serving homeless children. The Collaboration Director developed a guide to New York State Early Learning programs that included descriptions of the eight major early learning programs in New York State with an emphasis on Early Head Start and Head Start. The guide has recently been provided to homeless education liaisons across the state to help them meet their responsibilities under McKinney-Vento to support homeless families in obtaining high quality early learning services for their children.

Significant work has been conducted in New York City to link homeless children to Head Start programs and efforts will be made in the coming months to try to extend these efforts to other parts of the state.