National Indian Head Start Directors Association

Annual Planning Calendar for Program Management The calendar helps programs identify required planning activities and determine how they fit into their operational calendar, but it’s so much more than that.

ACF-PI-HS-21-04: Office of Head Start (OHS) Expectations for Head Start Programs in Program Year (PY) 20212022

Watch this video to hear Dr. Bernadine Futrell, director of the Office of Head Start (OHS), announce the launch of the Head Start Forward campaign. This initia...tive will bring grantees together and provide information and resources needed to prepare for upcoming program year (PY) 20212022. Head Start Forward’s goal is to support grantees in reaching more children and families and moving toward fully in-person comprehensive services, as local health conditions allow. https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov//introducing-head-start-forw See more

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021, as part of the Week of the Young Child Celebration, our centers had taste testing of Choctaw foods. The children at the Bogue Chitto ...center enjoyed a tasting of tanchi (hominy), walukshi (dumplings), and fry bread! They even helped prepare their own dough! We are celebrating our Choctaw culture with activities all this week! See more

The little ones at Bena and AOB early headstart have started gardening! Putting window sprouts up are a great way to show children the beginning stages of a see...ds life. Don't know when to start what right now? A few things you can start are your broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, potato seeds, strawberry seeds, and asemaa! See more

Don't miss the new AI/AN HS/EHS RESILIENT t-shirts! Orders are due by April 30th! https://www.nihsda.org/produc/aian-hs-ehs-resilient-t-shirt

Use these seven strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Find additional guidance for programs returning to in-person learning: https://buff.ly/3wluOj1 #SleeveUp4HeadStart

To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles’ 1968 classic Blackbird in the Mi’kmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 in Canada and the United States. A member of the Eskasoni First Nation, the Nova Scotia student sang lyrics that were painstakingly translated by Katani Julian, a teacher who works in language revitalization. Julian told WBUR. My language is very different from other ones. There’s a lot of syllables in ours. And there’s a lot of long words that translate into something really easy in English.