2024 Arkansas Head Start Association/Head Start State Collaboration Office Institute
DoubleTree Hotel/Robinson Convention Center
April 30-May 3, 2024
Please complete the call for papers online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GQX8H2Q before January 15, 2024. Please include the session title, session description, presenter, name, title, contact information, credentials, and a short bio for the presenter and co-presenter (if applicable).
Example Topics for Call for Papers: The Committee will consider other topics as well.
Early Childhood Education
- Early Childhood Transition
- Environments –Pre-K
- Environments for Infant/Toddlers
- Playgrounds
- Screenings: First Steps in Getting to Know a Child
- Helping Children Develop Self Regulation Skills
- Planning 0-3 Environments
- School Readiness-Working with Schools
- Head Start Early Learning Framework
- Social Emotional Development
Health and Safety
- Healthy Family Development
- Safe and Healthy Environments
- COVID-19 Vaccine
- Health/Wellness
Disability Services
- Disabilities
- Autism
- Early Intervention
- Working with LEA’s (local education agency's)
- Modifications
Mental Health
- Infant Mental Health
- Preschool Mental Health
- Childhood Trauma
- Calming and Relaxation
- Effects of COVID-19
Nutrition
- Healthy Foods
- Childhood Obesity
- Dealing with Dietary Needs
Family & Community Partnerships
- Engaging Families
- Social Services
- Grandparents raising grandchildren
- Collaboration/Partnership
- Financial Literacy
- Family Literacy
- Single Parenting
- Child Abuse/Neglect
- Services to Expectant Families
- Teen Parents
- Domestic Violence
- Substance Abuse
- Fatherhood Engagement
Program Design & Mgt.
- Organizational Development
- Administrative Structures
- Fiscal/Properties/Facilities
- Transportation
- Human Resources
- Program Governance
- Family Medical Leave Act
- Staff Education Requirements
- Monitoring Protocol
- Annual Program Self- Assessment
- Innovation
- Professional Development Plans
- Employee Morale
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Developing Program Goals and Annual Objectives/Strategic Planning
- T/TA Planning
- Ideas for locally designed program options
- Active Supervision
- Head Start Performance Standards (Different Sections)
- Components of the Head Start Program Performance Standards
- Finding the Right Insurance for Program Staff
- Innovation in the Workforce
Racial Equity
- Implicit Bias
- Micro-Aggression
- Discrimination
- "DBIE"-Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity-Improving Employee Collaboration
- Racial Equity in the Classroom
- Racial Equity Versus Equality
- Dealing with Prejudice and Racism in the Workplace
- Dismantling Racism