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A New Service from The Gravely Group: Enrollment Reduction/Conversion Application Proposals
Mel Gravely
15-June-2023

A New Service from The Gravely Group: Enrollment Reduction/Conversion Application Proposals

The Gravely Group is now offering training on how to write and submit an enrollment reduction/conversion application. Contact us for more information. Since the start of the 2021-2022 program year, Head Start has required that grantees return to full enrollment. In a blog we wrote at the time, we posed the question, “does your program…

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The Gravely Group 2022 Year in Review
Mel Gravely
05-December-2022

The Gravely Group 2022 Year in Review

If you only read one of The Gravely Group’s blogs each year, our annual Year in Review should be it. Each year, we do a recap of all the articles we put out throughout the year, as well as give a few other highlights from our trainings and travels. After nearly three years of uncertainty,…

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Families that are Categorically Eligible to Enroll in Head Start
Mel Gravely
17-May-2022

Families that are Categorically Eligible to Enroll in Head Start

A month ago, Head Start released a memo stating that families receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are now categorically eligible for Head Start. What that means is that if families can provide documentation of their eligibility for SNAP benefits, they are automatically eligible to be enrolled in Head Start. They do not need…

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OHS Releases Enrollment Expectations for 2021-2022 School Year
Mel Gravely
17-June-2021

OHS Releases Enrollment Expectations for 2021-2022 School Year

Summer is the time for planning. And after the confusion and societal upheaval of the last year, this upcoming school year is going to take more planning than usual. The Office of Head Start (OHS) recently released a program instruction outlining their enrollment expectations for the upcoming school year. In short, it states that designees…

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Is your ERSEA strategy ready for post-COVID?
Mel Gravely
09-March-2021

Is your ERSEA strategy ready for post-COVID?

Whether we like it or not, some parents will always consider Head Start free babysitting. We can educate parents on the history of Head Start, talk about its focus on the whole child, and espouse its many other benefits. But no matter what, there will always be some parents who are just looking for an…

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Marketing Strategies to Assist with Full Enrollment
Mel Gravely
29-July-2019

Marketing Strategies to Assist with Full Enrollment

In June, OHS released a program instruction to remind designees about the requirement to maintain full enrollment for the upcoming school year. “This Program Instruction (PI) reiterates the importance of full enrollment. It also outlines the authority of OHS to designate an agency as Chronically Underenrolled and recapture, withhold, or reduce the base grant for…

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Serving Foster Children in Head Start
Mel Gravely
12-April-2019

Serving Foster Children in Head Start

I have a special place in my heart for foster children, having been a foster parent myself for many years. Foster children can often feel like the world has forgotten them, as the many adults around them are busy navigating the complex bureaucratic web that is the foster care system. While we all mean well,…

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Head Start Can Provide Structure and Consistency for New Immigrant Families
Mel Gravely
07-December-2018

Head Start Can Provide Structure and Consistency for New Immigrant Families

In 1977, Head Start began its first bilingual and bicultural programs. 40 years later, Head Start continues to build productive relationships with families by respecting and responding appropriately to the culture, language, values, and family structures of each family they work with. In fact, it’s a requirement. Immigration as a policy matter has been a…

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Client Testimonial: Delta Health Alliance
Mel Gravely
30-September-2018

Client Testimonial: Delta Health Alliance

We received the following letter after an ERSEA training from Sha’Ketta Davis, Assistant Director, ERSEA Coordinator, & Compliance Officer for the Delta Health Alliance. Thank you Ms. Davis for the kind words! We appreciate you choosing The Gravely Group. “On Monday, September 10, 2018, Mr. Gravely conducted an ERSEA training in Indianola, MS for the…

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OHS Announces Supplemental Grant Funds to Help Agencies Increase Program Hours
Mel Gravely
20-September-2018

OHS Announces Supplemental Grant Funds to Help Agencies Increase Program Hours

Ever since the Office of Head Start (OHS) announced the full enrollment initiative in June, we’ve been receiving a lot of questions about what kind of support Head Start will provide at the federal level to help programs get closer to the goal of full enrollment. We’re starting to see those questions get answered. OHS…

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