The National Head Start Facilities Assistance Desk

Toll Free: 1-800-303-0705
bcrooks@pal-tech.com

 The National Head Start Facilities Assistance Desk assists local grantees with the complexities of facility construction and renovation. The HSRC operates the Facilities Assistance Desk and offers onsite technical assistance in such areas as reviewing and critiquing plans and drawings, reviewing bid documents and proposals, organizing and operating a planning team, providing individual training on construction standards and related issues, and providing regional training when resources permit.

GOALS

• To provide a continuum of information and available resources to the ACF Head Start network of programs, agencies, and grantees, along with the ACF Regional Offices, throughout the United States and territories.
• To assist each ACF grantee and delegate, along with each Regional Office, in their efforts to update and improve their own knowledge of Construction Standards as we know them to be: 1) the development and application of the construction process; 2) the development and application of the construction forms to assist in the construction process; and 3) the knowledge and application of codes and regulations for both Head Start and EHS, but also for the construction industry.
• To provide this information in a user-friendly format using knowledgeable and field-tested instruments, information, and resources that has been widely used by both Head Start/EHS and other ACF Regional Offices.