By Amanda Schwartz, Consultant, Foundations for Families The children in your program come with a wide variety of strengths, challenges, and needs which you and your staff work hard to support. Sometimes those needs qualify them for special education or health...
By Patti Greenstein, Consultant and Trainer, Foundations for Families Designated by the Head Start Act as an evaluation requirement of Head Start/Early Head Start grantees, CLASS is one measure the Office of Head Start (OHS) uses to assess program quality. In our work...
Earlier this year Preschool Development Birth through Five Grant awards were announced. There is now additional information available on the Office of Child Care (OCC) website about the awardees. A list of PDG B-5 Grant awardees is posted with the federal award...
When robust data collection is part of community assessment there is great potential for impact on program planning and implementation. Community assessment is one of the key inputs into a program’s continuous improvement! Used effectively, community assessment can...
With the excitement of states submitting Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) proposals and the announcement of awards, renewal grants might not be top of mind. But, PDG B-5 Renewal Grants are already forecasted on grants.gov. Renewal grants were...
