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Thank you for your
participation!
Your help is
important
to us and to all
Head Start children
and families.

American
Indian/Alaska
Native Head Start
Family and Child
Experiences
Survey

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences
Survey (FACES) is the largest national study of
Head Start. It collects information about the children
and families served by Head Start and lets the
national Head Start program and your local Head
Start program learn how the program is doing.
We invite you and your child to take part in an
important new study called the American Indian/
Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child
Experiences Survey, known as AI/AN FACES.
AI/AN FACES is the first study to collect in-depth
information about the characteristics and
experiences of children and families served by
Head Start programs in American Indian and
Alaska Native communities. This study will allow
Head Start to better serve the needs of these
children, and families.
To understand Head Start better, the AI/AN FACES
research team collects information in many different

ways. We will invite you to complete a survey at two
time points: the fall of 2015 and the spring of 2016.
The survey will ask you questions about yourself,
your family, your experience with Head Start, and
your child’s experience. You will receive a $25
giftcard after you complete the survey.
We will also do a set of activities with your child at
your child’s Head Start center. These activities will
help us learn about children’s development. The
activities we will ask your child to do are the kinds of
things children typically do at Head Start. Your child
will receive a book for participating.
All the answers you and your child give are private.
They will never be shared with anyone from Head
Start. You do not have to take part in the study. If
you decide not to be part of AI/AN FACES (even
though we hope you will), it will not affect your or
your child’s Head Start services.

AI/AN FACES is sponsored by the Administration
for Children and Families, the government agency
overseeing Head Start. Mathematica Policy
Research is conducting the study. All staff members
working on AI/AN FACES have lots of experience
doing research with young children and their
families and have been fully trained for this project.

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