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Overview
"Through statewide partnerships, the Nevada Head Start State Collaboration and Early Childhood Systems Office enhances relationships, builds systems, and promotes comprehensive quality services to meet the needs of young children and their families"
The Nevada Head Start Collaboration and Early Childhood Systems (HSC&ECS) Office is funded by two federal grants. The Head Start State Collaboration grant is awarded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Head Start. The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) grant is awarded by the Health Services and Resources Administration Maternal Child Health Bureau. The Nevada HSC&ECS Office was located in the Director's Office of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. It is scheduled to move over to the Nevada Department of Education early in 2014.
The Head Start SCO works in eight initiative areas to:
- Improve the availability, accessibility, and quality of child care services
- Improve collaboration with welfare systems
- Expand and improve education opportunities in early childhood programs including caregiver/teacher education
- Initiate interaction with community service programs
- Improve opportunities for children with disabilities
- Improve access to family literacy services
- Improve coordination of services for homeless children and families
Presentation
The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Project works across five areas, all of which have a relationship to the eight HSSCO initiative areas. This is the primary purpose of combining the two projects.
- Medical Homes / Health Care
- Social-Emotional Development / Mental Health
- Early Care and Education
- Parenting Education
- Family Support Services
The graphic illustration below depicts how these elements integrate to form an Early Childhood Comprehensive System.