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2000 Distance Education Audioconference Series

Set Aside to Include: Recruiting Children with Disabilities
(Aired July 26, 2000)

The Melting Pot:
Sensitivity to Cultural Issues Around Nutrition
(Aired August 30, 2000)

From Day One:
Taking a Holistic Approach to Transition
(Aired September 13, 2000)

The Head Start Performance Standards (1305.6(c)) require that "at least 10% of the total number of enrollment opportunities in each grantee and each delegate agency during an enrollment year must be made available to children with disabilities." Often, Early Head Start programs are challenged to meet this requirement, despite successful recruitment activities for typically developing children. This audioconference explores the barriers that programs face in meeting this requirement, and identifies recruitment activities that programs have used successfully to meet standards. Recruitment is recognized as part of a holistic process. Issues of enrollment and inclusion as they relate to recruitment are also be addressed.

Like so many other parenting issues, food, cooking preferences, diet, and feeding are grounded firmly in parents' cultural upbringing. Early Head Start staff are charged with empowering families to provide good nutrition to their children, and with intervening when nutrition habits may be harmful. But as they do this critical work, how do they remain sensitive to the cultural implications of the information they share? This program asks the question, in America's Melting Pot, how do we address what's cooking?

When a family enters an Early Head Start program, transition to a preschool setting seems very far away. However, supporting families in the early years of their children's lives is ultimately for the purpose of empowering them to move away. This program looks at planning and preparing for transition as a long-term process. Faculty speak to strategies that empower children and families to feel comfortable with new experiences within the EHS program as well as new experiences beyond the EHS program. This call focuses on what programs can do to help families prepare for transition, even in the face of limited community resources to serve children at three years.


2000 Audiotape Series Order Form
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This Web site was developed for the Head Start Bureau by ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, under contract No. 105-98-2055 from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Administration for Children and Families; U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, to operate the Early Head Start National Resource Center.