The 2021-2022 Study of Family and Staff Well-Being in Head Start AIAN FACES Programs

Inclusion Criteria: The Head Start programs participating in the 2021-2022 Study were a probability sample selected from among 146 study-eligible programs on the 2016-2017 Head Start Program Information Report (PIR). To be eligible for the study, a program had to be * providing services directly to children ages 3 to 5 o The Head Start Program Performance Standards require that children turn 3 by date used to determine eligibility for public school in the community in which the Head Start program is located. Therefore, some study children were 2 years old at the time of sampling if sampling occurred before the date used for public school eligibility. * not be in imminent danger of losing its grantee status. Probability samples of centers were selected within each program, teachers within each center, and children within each teacher. Further, the programs that participated in the 2019-2020 study had to have participated in AIAN FACES 2019-2020. Exclusion Criteria: Head Start programs in Regions I through X and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (Region XII) were not eligible for the 2021-2022 Study. Programs that did not participate in AIAN FACES 2019-2020 were also not eligible for this study.