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Introduction to Head Start Management Systems Karen Pucciarelli Region 1 Head Start Quality Initiative Agenda Systems thinking and Head Start Overview of Head Start’s Key Management Systems The interrelatedness of systems and services Your role in building strong systems that support quality programming and lead to improved outcomes for children and families Using Self-Assessment to engage in continuous quality improvement Management Systems and Head Start Where We Began Head Start began as a children’s summer program in 1965 Enrollment: 561,000 (FY2004) Appropriation: $96,400,000 (FY2004) Management Systems and Head Start Where We Are Today 1990s –huge expansion and growth in programs Now the largest early childhood and family education program in nation The largest health referral system for children Enrollment: 905,851 (FY2004) Appropriation: $6,774,848,000 (FY2004) Changes resulting from the 1998 revisions of the HS Program Performance Standards: Acknowledgement of the need to view Head Start programs as complex systems Recognition of the interconnectedness of systems and services PRISM 2006 Employs a systems approach Failures in services areas may indicate underlying systems issues Focuses on how systems, services, and partnering activity create and maintain quality programs Suppose there were no systems Systems Thinking Systems are dynamic A system is a collection of parts that interact with one another to function as a whole Parts of a system are dependent upon one another to function properly A change in one part of the system affects the other parts and the system as a whole Parts of a system may not be interchangeable Systems Thinking Within Head Start, systems are all connected and interrelated Each system is impacted by the others HS systems influence program services; Program services influence HS systems Your Head Start program is part of a