Home visiting options within head start: Current practice and future directions

The results of a national survey of home-visiting programs compared Head Start home visiting programs ( n = 295) to other home-visiting programs serving families with children in the 3- to 6-year-old age range ( n = 117). Because both sets of programs serve children within the same age range, comparisons have been made to illustrate common points of contact for possible integration of services at the client level and coordination at the systems level. Consonant with the recent Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion (ACHSQE) report (1994), strategies for providing more coordination of Head Start home visiting services at the systems and client levels are discussed.