American Indian/Alaska Native 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:
Guadalupe Quiroz
888.242.0684
OHSgrants@koniag-gs.com

The American Indian/Alaska Native Head Start/Early Head Start Expansion 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.
• 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

Award ceiling: $9,177,455 per year
Award floor: $1,000,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 5
Estimated total program funding: $9,177,455

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

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.