A Head Start center assessed and improved its nutrition program. The process involved understanding the program's flaws; developing strategies for change that emphasized mental health and education and impacted all components of the curriculum; and fostering positive staff attitudes toward nutrition. (SM)

Notes that early education and child-care programs are more often child-centered than family-centered, and that currently, the trend is to integrate family support services with them. Provides a conceptual framework for this integration and examples of the design and implementation of family support services in different types of early education…

Describes a Baltimore City Head Start project that was designed to provide educational and other services to children from birth to age five years who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Services are also provided to children's families. (BB)