(2) in subsection (g)(2)(B), by striking clause 
(iv) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(iv) providing professional develop-
ment and personnel enhancement activi-
ties, including the provision of funds to re-
cipients of grants under subsection (a), re-
lating to effective methods of implementing 
parent education, conducting home vis-
iting, and promoting quality early child-
hood development.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) Staff Qualifications and Development— 
‘‘(1) HOME VISITOR STAFF.— 
‘‘(A) STANDARDS.—In order to further en-
hance the quality of home visiting services pro-
vided to families of children participating in 
home-based, center-based, or combination pro-
gram options under this subchapter, the Sec-
retary shall establish standards for training, 
qualifications, and the conduct of home visits 
for home visitor staff in Early Head Start pro-
grams. 
‘‘(B) 
CONTENTS.—The 
standards 
for 
training, qualifications, and the conduct of 
home visits shall include content related to— 
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‘‘(i) structured child-focused home vis-
iting that promotes parents’ ability to sup-
port the child’s cognitive, social, emotional, 
and physical development; 
‘‘(ii) effective strengths-based parent 
education, including methods to encourage 
parents as their child’s first teachers; 
‘‘(iii) early childhood development 
with respect to children from birth through 
age 3; 
‘‘(iv) methods to help parents promote 
emergent literacy in their children from 
birth through age 3; 
‘‘(v) ascertaining what health and de-
velopmental services the family receives 
and working with these providers to elimi-
nate gaps in service by offering annual 
health, vision, hearing, and developmental 
screening for children from birth to entry 
into kindergarten, when needed; 
‘‘(vi) strategies for helping families 
coping with crisis; and 
‘‘(vii) the relationship of health and 
well-being of pregnant women to prenatal 
and early child development.’’. 
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(c) TARGETED GRANTS
FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD 
HOME VISITATION FOR FAMILIES WITH ENGLISH LAN-
GUAGE LEARNERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in collabora-
tion with the Secretary of Education, shall make 
grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible applicants 
to enable such applicants to support and expand 
local efforts to deliver services under quality pro-
grams of early childhood home visitation to eligible 
families with English language learners. 
(2) ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.—In this subsection, 
the term ‘‘eligible applicant’’ means— 
(A) 1 or more local educational agencies 
(as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 7801)); and 
(B) 1 or more public or private commu-
nity-based organizations or agencies that serve 
eligible families and are capable of establishing 
and implementing programs of early childhood 
home visitation. 
(3) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible applicant that 
desires to receive a grant under this subsection shall 
submit an application to the Secretary at such time, 
in such manner, and containing such information as 
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the Secretary may require. The application shall in-
clude a description of— 
(A) the results of a community wide needs 
assessment that describes— 
(i) community demographics dem-
onstrating the need for outreach and serv-
ices to eligible families with English lan-
guage learners; 
(ii) the quality and capacity of exist-
ing programs of early childhood home visi-
tation for eligible families with English 
language learners in the community; 
(iii) the gaps in programs of early 
childhood home visitation for eligible fami-
lies with English language learners in the 
community; and 
(iv) the type of program of early 
childhood home visitation necessary to ad-
dress the gaps identified; 
(B) the program of early childhood home 
visitation that will be supported by the grant 
under this subsection; 
(C) how the proposed program of early 
childhood home visitation will promote positive 
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parenting skills and children’s early learning 
and development; 
(D) how the proposed program of early 
childhood home visitation will incorporate the 
authorized activities described in paragraph (6); 
(E) how services provided through a grant 
under this subsection will use materials that are 
geared toward eligible families with English lan-
guage learners; 
(F) how the activities under this subsection 
will build on and promote coordination among 
existing programs of early childhood home visi-
tation, if such programs exist in the commu-
nity, in an effort to promote an array of home 
visitation that ensures more eligible families 
with English language learners are being served 
and are getting the most appropriate services to 
meet their needs; 
(G) how the program will ensure that— 
(i) eligible families with English lan-
guage learners are linked to schools; and 
(ii) the activities under this subsection 
will support the preparation of children for 
school; 
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(H) how channels of communication will be 
established between staff of programs of early 
childhood home visitation and staff of other 
early childhood education programs, such as 
Head Start programs carried out under the 
Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.) and 
Early Head Start programs carried out under 
section 645A of such Act, preschool programs, 
and child care programs, to facilitate the co-
ordination of services for eligible families with 
English language learners; 
(I) how eligible families with English lan-
guage learners will be recruited and retained to 
receive services under this subsection; 
(J) how training and technical assistance 
will help the staff of programs of early child-
hood home visitation involved in activities under 
this subsection to more effectively serve eligible 
families with English language learners; 
(K) how the eligible applicant will evaluate 
the activities supported under this subsection in 
order to demonstrate outcomes related to the— 
(i) increase in number of eligible fami-
lies with English language learners served 
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