Early Head Start: A model of Teamwork
In Early Head Start(EHS), "team" is a keyword. At the local level, each grantee works in partnership with diverse community agencies and organizations to assure that the needs of low-income families with infants and toddlers, as well as pregnant women, are met.
Within EHS programs, this team approach is essential as staff members provide families with comprehensive and coordinated services to meet their specific needs. Certainly the relationships between and among staff and families are built on the mutual respect that is part of a team approach.
In administering this vital new program at the federal level, the Head Start Bureau also relies on teamwork. Working collaboratively, federal staff will provide the necessary design, development, support, and oversight to ensure that grantees deliver services which are effective, which enhance the development of infants and toddlers, and which support their families.
The team is comprised of federal project officers, grants management specialists, and other staff who have been assisting with the implementation of the EHS program. EHS grantees met the EHS Orientation Conference in Washington, DC, in January.
The federal staff who will be supporting the EHS program are: Helen Taylor, Merrily Beyreuther, Mimi Kanda, Helen Raikes, Esther Kresh, Mary Shiffer, Madelyn Schultz, Edgard Perez, and Denice Glover. Coordinating closely with this group will be Trellis Waxler, JoAn Herren, and Sherri Ash. Lynda Perez and her staff in Grants Management will also provide ongoing assistance.
While these names will be seen frequently in correspondence and other materials from the federal office, there are many other federal team members who have made and will continue to make significant contributions to the EHS program.
Across the country, and at all levels, these team members are joining together in an effort to provide each and every landmark EHS program with the necessary support to make it successful.
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