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Texas Head Start State Collaboration Office

Background

Collaboration, on behalf of children and families, is one of Head Start’s highest priorities. Since 1990, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has awarded Head Start State Collaboration grants to support the development of multi-agency and public/private partnerships at the State level. Texas was one of the first states to receive this grant.

Visit the official Texas Head Start State Collaboration Office website at http://thssco.uth.tmc.edu

The 2007 Head Start Act, Section 642B contains provisions for the award of a collaboration grant to each State and to each national administrative office serving American Indian Head Start programs and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs to facilitate collaboration among Head Start and Early Head Start agencies and entities that carry out activities designed to benefit low-income children from birth to school entry and their families.

1. Assisting in developing collaborative initiatives, structures, and mechanisms.
2. Creating linkages between Head Start and other state initiatives, service systems and our 4 priority areas- school transitions, professional development, chid care and early childhood systems and regional office priorities.

Head Start State Collaboration Offices (HSSCOs) exist “to facilitate collaboration among Head Start agencies and entities that carry out activities designed to benefit low income children from birth to school entry, and their families.  They provide a structure and a process for OHS to work with State agencies and local entities to leverage their common interests around young children and their families to formulate, implement, and improve state and local policy and practice. To be effective, the HSSCO director must hold a full-time position of sufficient authority and access to ensure collaboration is effective and involves a range of State agencies.”

To find out more about the national initiative in Head Start/Early Head Start, visit the National Head Start Association, the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center and the National Office of Head Start.