Head Start Expansion, Early Head Start Expansion, and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grants

For programmatic questions:
Kesley Shaw
888.242.0684
OHSgrants@koniag-gs.com

For financial or budget questions:
Jennifer Curtiss
888.242.0684
OHSgrants@koniag-gs.com

The Head Start/Early Head Start and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program provides funding for:

• Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCP): Partner with local child care providers to provide comprehensive, high-quality services to eligible infants and toddlers. Partnerships should enhance and support early learning settings to provide full-day, full-year, comprehensive services that meet the needs of low-income working families; enhance access to high-quality, full-time child care; support the development of infants and toddlers through strong relationship-based experiences; and prepare them for the transition into preschool.
• Non-Partnership Early Head Start Expansion (EHS): Establish or add new traditional EHS slots. Non-Partnership EHS Expansion grantees provide early, continuous, intensive and comprehensive child development and family support services that will enhance the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of participating children; support parents' efforts to fulfill their parental roles; and help parents move toward self-sufficiency.
• Head Start Expansion: For new or current Head Start recipients to establish or add new traditional Head Start slots
• Combination Approach: Expand the number of Head Start, EHS, and EHS-CCP model slots to bring services to children and families.

Applicants may propose to provide the required services in settings that are center-based, home-based, provided in a family childcare setting, or through another locally designed program variation.

Eligible applicants include:

• Entities currently operating Head Start
• Entities currently operating Indian Head Start or Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs
• Other public entities, nonprofit, and for-profit private entities capable of providing child and family services that meet the standard for participation in programs under the Head Start Act

Priority is given to proposals providing services in high poverty census tracts.

Award ceiling: $20,509,347 per year
Award floor: $750,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 60
Estimated total program funding: $102,127,361

Grantees must provide a cash or in-kind match of at least 20% of the total approved project cost.

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.