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increasing supports, when available, to IDEA.

(REQUIRED) State/territory office/director for Head Start state collaboration. Describe the coordination goals and process: The Lead Agency works with the director of Nebraska's Head Start State Collaboration. Goals are to work on serving low income children in quality child care settings by reviewing Head Start standards and CCDF requirements to align where possible. Coordination includes meetings and community involvement.

(REQUIRED) State agency responsible for public health, including the agency responsible for immunizations. Describe the coordination goals and process: Public Health/Immunization and the Lead Agency are both administrated out of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Lead Agency and Public Health/Immunization have set forth the following goals to increase immunization awareness, education, and access. Provide educational information on the Child Care Subsidy website; to include information on the Vaccines for Children Program (VFC), which is an entitlement program and would benefit low income children and families. Provide resources including possible Q&A for on the importance of immunization for children and child care providers (who care for children). Ongoing meetings and communication will take place to implement these goals.

(REQUIRED) State/territory agency responsible for employment services/workforce development. Describe the coordination goals and process: Nebraska Department of Labor is the agency responsible for workforce developmentand employment services in Nebraska. The lead agency will provide education and training to frontline work force development staff to increase identification and referal of potentially eligible participants for child subsidy. The lead agency will also provide education on the availability of startup grants to the business service representatives of the workforce development agency to allow them the ability to market this resource to businesses and their day-to-day interactions with them.

(REQUIRED) State/territory agency responsible for public education, including prekindergarten (preK). Nebraska Page 17 of 314