Head Start FACES: Reaching Out to Families: Head Start Recruitment and Enrollment Practices

The Feasibility Study of Head Start Recruitment and Enrollment was designed to provide information about Head Start’s recruitment and enrollment activities. The central purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility and utility of obtaining information from secondary analyses of existing data and from primary data collection efforts regarding 1) the procedures that Head Start programs employed in the recruitment and enrollment of families and children, 2) the characteristics of eligible families, and 3) the reasons why some families with Head Start-eligible children chose not to enroll their children in the program.