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home visitors and other staff working directly with 
families, including training relating to increasing 
parent involvement and services designed to increase 
family literacy and improve parenting skills; 
‘‘(3) assist Head Start agencies in the develop-
ment of collaborative initiatives with States and 
other entities within the States, to foster effective 
early childhood professional development systems; 
‘‘(4) provide technical assistance and training, 
either directly or through a grant, contract, or coop-
erative agreement with an entity that has experience 
in the development and operation of successful fam-
ily literacy services programs, for the purpose of— 
‘‘(A) assisting Head Start agencies pro-
viding family literacy services, in order to im-
prove the quality of such family literacy serv-
ices; and 
‘‘(B) enabling those Head Start agencies 
that demonstrate effective provision of family 
literacy services, based on improved outcomes 
for children and their parents, to provide tech-
nical assistance and training to other Head 
Start agencies and to service providers that 
work in collaboration with such agencies to pro-
vide family literacy services; 
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‘‘(5) assist Head Start agencies and programs 
in conducting and participating in community-wide 
strategic planning and needs assessment, including 
the needs of homeless children and their families; 
‘‘(6) assist Head Start agencies and programs 
in developing and implementing full-working-day and 
full-calendar-year programs where community need 
is clearly identified and making the transition to 
such programs, with particular attention to involving 
parents and programming for children throughout 
the day, and assist the agencies and programs in ex-
pediting the sharing of information about innovative 
models for providing full-working-day, full calendar 
year services for children; 
‘‘(7) assist Head Start agencies in better serv-
ing the needs of families with very young children; 
‘‘(8) assist Head Start agencies and programs 
in the development of sound management practices, 
including financial management procedures; 
‘‘(9) assist in efforts to secure and maintain 
adequate facilities for Head Start programs; 
‘‘(10) assist Head Start agencies in developing 
innovative program models, including mobile and 
home-based programs; 
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‘‘(11) provide support for Head Start agencies 
(including policy councils and policy committees) 
that meet the standards described in section 
641A(a) but that have, as documented by the Sec-
retary through reviews conducted pursuant to sec-
tion 641A(c), significant programmatic, quality, and 
fiscal issues to address; 
‘‘(12) assist Head Start agencies and programs 
in increasing program participation of homeless chil-
dren; 
‘‘(13) assist Head Start agencies and Head 
Start programs in improving outreach to, and the 
quality of services available to, limited English pro-
ficient children and their families, particularly in 
communities that have experienced a large percent-
age increase in the population of limited English 
proficient individuals, as measured by the Bureau of 
the Census; 
‘‘(14) assist Head Start agencies in developing 
appropriate methods and approaches for identifying 
and working with children and families experiencing 
toxic stress; 
‘‘(15) assist programs in improving outreach to 
serve additional children with disabilities, if such 
program’s enrollment opportunities or funded enroll-
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ment for children with disabilities is less than 10 
percent; 
‘‘(16) provide assistance to address the unique 
needs of programs located in rural communities, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(A) removing barriers related to the re-
cruitment and retention of Head Start teachers 
in rural communities; 
‘‘(B) developing innovative and effective 
models of professional development for improv-
ing staff qualifications and skills for staff living 
in rural communities; 
‘‘(C) removing barriers related to outreach 
efforts to eligible families in rural communities; 
‘‘(D) removing barriers to parent involve-
ment in Head Start programs in rural commu-
nities; 
‘‘(E) removing barriers to providing home 
visiting services in rural communities; and 
‘‘(F) removing barriers to obtaining health 
screenings for Head Start participants in rural 
communities; and 
‘‘(17) assist Head Start agencies and programs 
to increase the capacity of classroom staff to meet 
the needs of eligible children in inclusive classrooms. 
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