ARKANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION INC
1400 West Markham Ste 406, Little Rock, AR 72201 www.arheadstart.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Promoting Head Start in Arkansas. The Arkansas Head Start Association's mission is to promote structured leadership and collaboration on the state and local levels by planning, informing, advocating, and delivering innovative and quality trainings, technical assistance, and support to Early Head Start, Head Start, and Migrant-Seasonal Head Start directors, staff, parents, and friends in the state of Arkansas.

Administered the Arkansas Head Start State Collaboration Office. The purpose of the Arkansas Head Start State Collaboration Office is to create a visible presence at the state level, which can assist in the development of significant, multi-agency and public private partnerships between Head Start and the state with specific focus on cooperation, coordination, and collaboration within nine key activity areas: 1) health care, 2) services for children experiencing homelessness, 3) welfare/child welfare, 4) child care, 5) family literacy services, 6) services for children with disabilities, 7) community services, 8) education, divided into 8A) publicly funded Pre-K partnership development and 8B) Head Start transition and alignment with K-12, and 9) professional development.

Administered the WK Kellogg Foundation Grant. The organization completed work on the project funded through the Kellogg Project with activities devoted to family engagement and school readiness in 2020.

Maintained State Office to serve 22 Head Start grantees serving over 9,000 children and families. The Board and Executive Committee had 6 meetings. (22 programs)

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