HEAD START SPONSORING BOARD COUNCIL NYC
ABOUT HEAD START SPONSORING BOARD COUNCIL
Established in 1981, the Head Start Sponsoring Board Council of the City of New York ("HSSBC," or the "Council") is the middle source between the City of New York's receivers of federal Head Start dollars and approximately 50 delegate agencies and 7 Direct Grantees which operate over 200 Head Start programs throughout the five boroughs. Any agency receiving Head Start funds from the New York City Administration for Children's Services is automatically member of HSSBC. The Council is a membership organization with 2,000 unionized and 450 management (non-unionized) employees.
THE HEAD START SPONSORING BOARD COUNCIL
Serves to increase the influence and enlarge the usefulness of Head Start Delegate Agencies through coordination of effort and to promote and participate in the expansion of Head Start throughout the City of New York. We strive to identify the problems that concern Delegate Agencies and their parent organizations and suggest possible solutions. Communicating with parents via community agencies and other organizations and encouraging and soliciting the active proposals of the Head Start Policy Council and Delegate Agency Policy Committees.
HEAD START
We act as a coordinating agency and forum for Head Start Delegate Agencies and other related agencies, investigate and report their conditions, and exchange ideas and concepts.
REPRESENT
We represent the interests of Head Start Delegate Agencies in matters concerning their relationship with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Agency for Child Development
THE PEOPLE
We represent the Head Start Delegate Agencies in collective bargaining and dealing with employees or labor organizations concerning terms and conditions of employment, grievances, labor disputes, or other matters incidental to the employment relationship, and further engage in any and all lawful activities in furtherance of the preceding purposes, except as restricted herein or prohibited by law.
HEAD START SPONSORING BOARD COUNCIL MISSION
To act as a coordinating agency and forum for Head Start Delegate Agencies and other related agencies and to investigate and report their conditions, exchange ideas and concepts, and concern itself generally with the welfare of Head Start Delegate Agencies, and in connection therewith, to assist and guide them to more efficiently carry on with their work and to represent the interests of Head Start Delegate Agencies in matters concerning their relationship with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Agency for Child Development.
