Beyond the Blueprint Directions for Research on Head Start's Families (1996) / Chapter Skim
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4 Examining Community-Head Start Collaborations
4 Examining Community-Head Start Collaborations
Pages 29-39
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, and logistical and practical barriers are useful to consider. Quality and Outcome Agendas: 3-4.
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Start programs (migrant ant] nonmigrant)
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The United States is in the midst of significant reform efforts in eclucation, health care, ant] social servicesthat boil!
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The rouncitable members focused their attention on the toll that community and family violence can take on Heac3 Start programs and staff ant! on the families they serve, as well as on the mental health consequences for children anc]
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It is critical, then, to understand what Head Start faces in these communities, to rethink notions of parent involvement and family support in this context, and to use this information to redefine the nature and scope of an effective program in extremely deprived neighborhoods. ISSUES FOR RESEARCH Community Resources, Head Start Quality, and Community Impacts The Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion highlighted the importance of forging effective partnerships with key community institutions and programs as a critical component of creating a Heat]
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The quality of services that Head Start provicles to its families clepencis increasingly on its fit with other institutions-formal and informal in the network of resources that serve the same families. Today, it is increasingly clifficult to meet all of the neecis of impoverished families in the context of full-time employment by low-income mothers, growing needs for mental health services, calls to improve family literacy, and rising community violence, to name a few contemporary pressures on Head Start.
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Sara Rosenhaum discussed the need to find ways to connect Head Start centers with new ventures in managed health care. She stressed the need to study the relationship between Head Start centers and local health management organizations, and to develop models and precedents for colia60ration between Head Start and health management organizations.
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It is also the subject of a major stucly, concluctecI under the auspices of the Board on Chiiclren, Youth, and Families, on assessing family violence interventions that is scheduiecT for completion in 1996. We lack basic statistics on the prevalence with which preschool-age chiTciren in this country witness violence, are threatened, or are the direct victims of violence.
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Barry Zuckerman identified two areas that merit research attention measures of exposure to violence and intervention programs in Head Start. As researchers begin to unravel the developmental consequences of chiZ1ren's exposure to violence, there is an urgent need to develop markers of exposure that can be used by the range of adults, including Head Start teachers, who work with young children.
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Given the immense demancis that these circumstances place on Head Start, some roundtable members pointed out that the issue of violer~ce offers a very significant context within which to examine productive linkages between HeacI Start and other community resources. One rouncitable member noted for example, that 46 percent of HeacT Start programs have access to mental health professionals "on call" only; most lack crisis teams anc3 intervention plans for cleating with children who have been exposer]
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First, a pilot study of several HeacI Start communities, cleliberately selected to represent some that are relatively resource- rich ant! some that are relatively resource poor, couIc3 contribute to developing and refining a methoclology for categorizing communities in ways that are meaningful for Heacl Start (e.g., institutional resources, specialized services, training resources, availability of specialists who can volunteer time to Head Start, private-sector resources)
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