Migrant and seasonal Head Start and child care partnerships: A report from the field

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent and nature of collaborative efforts between Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and state child care systems; such braiding efforts can result in enhancing the quality of services for low–income children and their families and in helping families become familiar with child care systems (Schilder, Kiron, Elliott, 2003). Secondly, it assesses the extent to which migrant and seasonal farmworker families are knowledgeable about the child care system and child care services, given the temporary nature of these families’ residency in any particular location as well as frequently cited linguistic and cultural barriers among this population. And lastly, aimed to assess the ability of migrant and seasonal families to access child care services for their children birth through school age–in other words, the same range of needed services experienced by families in the general population and by low–income non-migrating families.