(1) Contingent upon specific appropriation, the department shall establish a program to award collaboration grants to assist local agencies in securing Early Head Start programs through Early Head Start program federal grants. The collaboration grants shall provide the required matching funds for public and private nonprofit agencies that have been approved for Early Head Start program federal grants.
(2) Public and private nonprofit agencies providing Early Head Start programs applying for collaborative grants must:
(a) Meet the requirements in the Head Start program performance standards and other applicable rules and regulations.
(b) Collaborate with other service providers at the local level.
(c) Provide a comprehensive array of health, nutritional, and other services to the program’s pregnant women and very young children, and their families.
(3) The department may adopt rules as necessary for the award of collaboration grants to competing agencies and the administration of the collaboration grants program under this section.
History.—s. 17, ch. 2013-252; s. 61, ch. 2021-10.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XLVIII - Early Learning-20 Education Code
Chapter 1002 - Student and Parental Rights and Educational Choices
Part VI - School Readiness Program (Ss. 1002.81-1002.995)
1002.82 - Department of Education; powers and duties.
1002.83 - Early learning coalitions.
1002.84 - Early learning coalitions; school readiness powers and duties.
1002.85 - Early learning coalition plans.
1002.86 - School readiness program; education component.
1002.87 - School readiness program; eligibility and enrollment.
1002.89 - School readiness program; funding.
1002.895 - Market rate schedule.
1002.90 - School readiness cost-of-care information.
1002.91 - Investigations of fraud or overpayment; penalties.
1002.92 - Child care and early childhood resource and referral.
1002.93 - School readiness program transportation services.
1002.945 - Gold Seal Quality Care Program.
1002.95 - Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (TEACH) Scholarship Program.
1002.96 - Early Head Start collaboration grants.
1002.97 - Records of children in the school readiness program.
1002.995 - Early learning professional development standards and career pathways.