Sharing Web Resources

The National Head Start Association (NHSA) provided and offers different services to the Head Start and Early Childhood Education communities. The website for this organization is http://www.nhsa.org/ and everyone should take a minute or two and check it out. The whole idea behind head start came to light in the year 1973 and has been expanding since then. Parents can find a head start program which meets their criteria or individuals could look at for a job. NHSA provides a number of programs designed to directly enhance the operations of Head Start and Early programs and enrich the lives of Head Start students, parents, and staff (National Head Start Association, 2012). NHSA is also behind some very valuable and helpful programs like GO SMART. GO SMART is a program to improve the health of children ages 0-5 years of age and their families through the development of a physical activity program.

One current issue from the newsletter that caught my attention was Major Outcomes of the Deal on the Debt Limit. It meant a few things for the head start program. One was that the program was going to have to work super hard to avoid cuts and the second thing is that they had to make sure that funding wasn’t cut altogether. The good thing that came out of the deal was   the extra funding for Pell grants, since Pell grants come from the same bill that funds Head Start. The website also had a something that caught my attention was that head start association offers scholarships and awards for students and teacher. For some reason I just always thought that since the head start program deals with young children I just assumed it ended then also.