Measurement Development: Quality Relationship of Family and Family Services Staff in Head Start/Early Head Start

Director Recruitment Script

Family and Provider/Teacher Relationship Quality

Hello. My name is [SCREENER’S NAME]. I’m calling from Westat/Child Trends. May I speak with [PROGRAM DIRECTOR]?

Verify that you are speaking to the PROGRAM DIRECTOR.

Hi, [PROGRAM DIRECTOR], I’m calling about a research study Westat/Child Trends is conducting for the Office of Head Start and the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The study is about developing a toll to measure the quality relationships between Head Start/Early Head Start family services staff and the families that they serve. We are in the process of developing measures about what is important in these relationships, and we are recruiting Head Start/Early Head Start family services staff to help us with this study.

I am calling to ask your permission to contact family services staff from your program to participate in this study. Participation in this study is voluntary. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB number. The OMB # for the referenced collection is 0970-0355 and the expiration date is 01/31/2015.

Should you give permission for family services staff from your program to participate, we will ask you for the contact information of any family service workers in your program that you think may be willing to participate by completing a brief self-administered questionnaire and then giving two other self-administered questionnaires to parents of families they serve. Completion of each measure should take about 10-15 minutes, and as a token of our appreciation, we will send each participating family services worker and parent a check for $20 upon receiving the completed measures back at Westat.

Would you be willing to allow your family services staff in your program to participate?

Wonderful, thank you so much! Could you please give me the names and phone numbers of a few family services staff members in your program?

Name: Phone #:

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Thanks again, we truly appreciate your help with this important study.