The Child Care Partnerships Interview Protocol is designed to help reviewers interview the director or other lead staff members of agencies that have child care partnerships with Head Start and Early Head Start. Reviewers use the Community Partnerships Interview Protocol with community partners to gain an understanding of the development and implementation of each partnership. Review teams observe a grantee's child development activities, review documents, and conduct follow-up interviews with program staff, as other sources of information to answer the core questions. From these observations, reviewers gain information about the grantee's learning environments and on how staff have implemented the curriculum. The Home Visit Observation Instrument to guide observations when conducting a review of a grantee with a home based program option.
Reviewers observe how home visitors support parents in working with their children.
The Health and Safety Checklist to assist them in assuring that health and safety requirements are being met. The Fiscal Checklist to review the fiscal management of a grantee. Using a holistic, multi-faceted approach, reviewers determine the responsiveness of the grantee's systems and services for this group by looking at the whole child and family. I have gotten wonderful feedback from many of you expressing great satisfaction with the changes that we have made in program monitoring. We are very proud of the progress that the Head Start community has made over the past several years in implementing the important changes with program monitoring.