ERIC Number: ED666355
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 21
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Head Start Teachers' Well-Being and Program Supports for Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Fall 2021 to Spring 2022. Research Brief. OPRE Report #2024-094
Jessica F. Harding; Alex Baum; Addison Larson; Louisa Tarullo; Sara Bernstein
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
The well-being of Head Start teachers is essential to ensuring high-quality early care and education (ECE) and supporting children's development. The COVID-19 pandemic raised unique challenges to teachers' well-being. In this brief, the authors explore Head Start teachers' health, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, stress, and job satisfaction; the supports programs offered and the ones teachers used; and the associations between teachers' well-being and those supports during the pandemic. The authors use data collected in fall 2021 and spring 2022 from the 2021-2022 Study of Family and Staff Well-Being in Head Start FACES Programs (the 2021-2022 Study), after nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings reveal insights about the well-being of Head Start teachers in the wake of the pandemic and ways to support their well-being. The data in this brief provide a window into the experiences of Head Start teachers who were able to respond to the survey in 2021-2022.
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Low Income Students, Well Being, Early Childhood Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Conditions, Health, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Stress Variables, Job Satisfaction, Intervention, Coping, Wages, Teacher Salaries, Teacher Employment Benefits, Mental Health, Physical Health, Stress Management, Teacher Attitudes
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Administration for Children & Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, 330 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20201. Web site: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE); Mathematica
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Head Start
Grant or Contract Numbers: HHSP233201500035I; HHSP23337024T
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