For the Community

Strategic Partners

Many organizations share our vision of providing a quality early childhood experience for children from low income families.

We thank our current strategic partners who have collaborated with us in support of Virginia Head Start programs. If your organization would like to become a strategic partner with VAHSA, contact Maxine McKinney.

The Soho Center

The Soho Center promotes quality child care nationally with a special focus on early children's literacy, school readiness, and school success, while also providing a variety of reliable web-based health, nutrition, and safety resources. The VHSA and the Soho Center are working together to distribute The Resource Directory to head start families. Read about this effort. Visit The Soho Center on the web.

Voices for Virginia’s Children

Voices for Virginia’s Children is a statewide, privately funded, non-partisan awareness and advocacy organization that builds support for practical public policies to improve the lives of children. A recognized leader in child advocacy, Voices mobilizes support for initiatives by conducting research, developing policies, building coalitions, and helping people articulate their support for children. Visit Voices for Virginia's Children on the web.

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

Thanks to a partnership with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Virginia Head Start teachers are being trained in the outdoor curriculum Growing Up Wild. The Department launched this early childhood initiative designed to interest young audiences in nature and the outdoors. Workshops provide an interactive, hands-on approach allowing participants to experience Growing Up WILD activities and discover how using them can help accomplish educational goals. Learn more about this effort.