Child care providers can benefit by forming partnerships with Head Start and Early Head Start providers. Partnerships can enable children from low-income families in child care programs to receive comprehensive health, family support, education, and nutrition programming and services. Children and their working parents can benefit from extended day (full-day, full-year) services. A partnership can be developed with a formal agreement. A sample of an agreement is below.

Model Agreement for Prekindergarten Contacts (with the MOU Language Required by the Head Start Act of 2007)
This document is intended to serve as a model for local agreements, memoranda of understanding, or contracts between private early childhood programs and LEAs to provide pre-kindergarten services.  It includes the elements required by the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007 for entering into MOUs with entities responsible for managing publicly funded preschool programs.