The Head Start Programs include health, education, parent involvement and social services. Such services are designed to meet the needs of children in the context of the family. The road to successful school readiness involves a new vision that encompasses not only children and their environment but the roles that schools, communities and service agencies must play in their healthy development of children. Their concerns about American children's services are applicable here in Canada. From the perspective of families, the services are often not available or accessible.
Some sources wrongly focus on family weakness rather than their strengths.
Other American sources have applied this concept of interagency service delivery to early childhood. The policy brief also defines the essential elements of an Early Childhood system . The Early Childhood Initiatives for Priority children and their families started in New Brunswick in 1992. The ECI is an integrated service delivery system for children aged 0-4. The system is coordinated across the province by a single entry point, the public health nurse.