American Indian/Alaska Native Early Head Start Expansion and Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Grants

For programmatic questions:
Shawna Pinckney
888.242.0684
OHSTech@reviewops.org

For financial or budget questions:
Jeff Newton
303.844.1149
jeff.newton@acf.hhs.gov

The American Indian/Alaska Native Early Head Start (EHS) Expansion program provides funding for:

• Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CC): 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.
• Developing New Family Childcare Providers and Building Networks: Innovative workforce focused approaches that increase the supply of high quality early care and education in communities with a shortage of providers
• Non-Partnership 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.
• Combination Approach: Expand the number of EHS slots and implement the EHS-CC Partnership model designed to bring EHS services to infants and toddlers in child care and family child care settings.

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: $3,567,886 per year
Award floor: $500,000 per year
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 5
Estimated total program funding: $3,567,886

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 the online application process are available through grants.gov.