Head Start Collaboration Offices (HSCOs) facilitate partnerships between Head Start agencies and other state entities that provide services to benefit children and their families identified as low-income.
Scope of Work
The Office of Head Start has prioritized the goals of the HSCO to guide their work. The six priorities include:
- Assist in building early childhood systems by collaborating with entities involved in State and local planning processes to better meet the needs of children identified as low income from birth to school entry, and their families.
- Provide access to comprehensive services and support for all children identified as low income.
- Encourage widespread collaboration between Head Start programs and other appropriate programs, services, and initiatives.
- Promote better linkages between Head Start agencies and other child and family agencies that provide health, mental health, or family services, or other child or family supportive services.
- Facilitate the involvement of Head Start in state policies, plans, processes, and decisions affecting target populations and other families identified as low income.
- Augment Head Start's capacity to be a partner in state initiatives on behalf of children and their families.
For information about Michigan's Head Start State Collaboration Office, contact:
Cynthia Derby, Director
Head Start State Collaboration Office
Michigan Department of Education
517-930-4387
