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1991.05.24 :  Head Start Management Education

Contact: Bill McPherrin (202) 245-7ll0
May 24, 1991

        HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., and Johnson &
Johnson Chairman and CEO Ralph S. Larsen, today announced a new
program to provide management education for local center
directors of the nation's Head Start program.
        The two-week management course, which is being
underwritten by Johnson & Johnson, will be conducted at the
University of California at Los Angeles, at the Anderson Graduate
School of Management.  The first session is scheduled to begin
June 16.
        "The Johnson & Johnson/Head Start Management Fellows
Program will provide Head Start directors with the opportunity to
receive the highest quality management education available in
this country," Secretary Sullivan said.
        Approximately 40 Head Start directors from across the
country will be enrolled in each session.  Curriculum for the
course includes such topics as human resource management,
planning, financial management, external relations and program
evaluation.
        "Johnson & Johnson has singled out Head Start as one of
our primary philanthropic interests in the field of education and
health," Larsen said.  "Head Start not only offers education
services but gives children and their families urgently needed
health, nutrition and counseling support as well."
        For more than 25 years, the Head Start program has been
regarded as one of HHS' most successful early childhood
development programs.  Currently, the program provides
comprehensive developmental services to more than 500,000 pre-
school children from low-income families.
        There are over 34,000 Head Start classrooms with nearly
97,000 paid staff and nearly 900,000 volunteers, mainly parents
of enrolled children.


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