Favorite Your Most-Used Tasks

Platform: Head Start & CAP

Bookmark your favorite GoEngage Tasks and access them directly from your homepage to save time every day.

More Professional Agency Emails

Platform: Head Start & CAP

Your agency logo, branding, and improved email formatting help communications look more polished and recognizable to families and staff.

Enhanced Child Location Tracker

Platform: Head Start

Track individual child locations—such as the nurse, therapy, or restroom—separately from classroom locations to further support Active Supervision.

Easier Governance & Reporting

Platform: Head Start

Automatic quorum calculations, enhanced meeting exports, and improved PIR and reporting tools help simplify compliance and reporting.

Explore Everything That's New

Platform: Head Start & CAP

These are just a few of the many enhancements included in our Summer 2026 Release. Be sure to explore the complete release notes for additional improvements, screenshots, setup instructions, and feature details.

👉 View the Complete Summer 2026 Release Notes

Thank You for Your Feedback

Many of these enhancements began as suggestions from agencies like yours. Your ideas help shape the future of GoEngage, and we're grateful for your continued partnership.

Have an idea for a future enhancement? We'd love to hear from you!

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National Immunization Awareness Month

Platform: Head Start

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, making it an excellent opportunity to ensure children's immunization records are complete and up to date before the new program year begins.

Maintaining accurate immunization records is an important part of meeting the requirements outlined in 45 CFR §1302.42 – Child Health Status and Care, which requires programs to determine whether children are up to date on age-appropriate preventive health care, including immunizations, and to assist families in obtaining any needed health services.

This is also a great time to:

• Review children with missing or overdue immunizations.

• Follow up with families regarding outstanding documentation.

• Verify immunization records through your state's registry (where available).

• Document follow-up efforts and next steps.

• Prepare for health monitoring, reporting, and ongoing compliance throughout the year.

GoEngage Spotlight: GoEngage helps agencies simplify immunization tracking and support compliance with 45 CFR §1302.42 – Child Health Status and Care by bringing health records, follow-up activities, and reporting together in one place. With GoEngage, your team can:

• Track immunization requirements for every child, identify missing or overdue records, and request updated immunization records from families through the Parent Portal or a secure email or text link.

• Document follow-up efforts with families, healthcare providers, and community partners.

• Set reminders and alerts so important health requirements aren't overlooked.

• Maintain a complete audit trail of immunization records, communications, and follow-up activities.

• Generate reports and dashboards to monitor compliance and prepare for monitoring and reporting.

• Retrieve immunization records electronically through GoEngage's State Immunization Registry Integrations (IIS) in participating states, helping reduce duplicate data entry and improve data accuracy.

• Share health information and reminders with families through the Parent Portal, family messaging, announcements, and other communication tools.

Does your state offer an Immunization Registry Integration? Visit our State Immunization Registry Integrations page to see participating states and learn how your agency can streamline immunization tracking.

GoEngage Resources:

• Track immunizations

• Import state immunization records

• (Admin) Update your immunization schedule

National Wellness Month

Platform: Head Start & CAP

Supporting children's well-being begins with supporting the well-being of the adults who serve them. National Wellness Month is a reminder that healthy programs are built on healthy children, engaged families, and supported staff.

The Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) emphasize a comprehensive approach to health and wellness by promoting children's physical, oral, mental, nutritional, and developmental well-being while encouraging strong family partnerships and ongoing communication. A successful program depends not only on delivering these services, but also on documenting them and ensuring appropriate follow-up when additional support is needed.

National Wellness Month is a great opportunity to:

• Encourage healthy habits for children, families, and staff.

• Recognize staff accomplishments and promote work-life balance.

• Review children's health, nutrition, and developmental services.

• Strengthen family partnerships by connecting families with community resources.

• Celebrate the many ways your team supports whole-child wellness every day.

GoEngage Spotlight: GoEngage helps agencies support whole-child and family wellness by bringing health, family services, education, and communication together in one connected platform. With GoEngage, your team can:

• Track health services including screenings, follow-up activities, referrals, and health requirements.

• Monitor compliance with dashboards, alerts, and reports that help identify children or families needing additional follow-up.

• Document family services and connect families with community resources to support their individual goals.

• Share wellness resources with families through the Parent Portal, family messaging, announcements, surveys, and downloadable documents.

• Collaborate across departments using Staff Collaboration to coordinate care and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

• Maintain a complete history of services, communications, and follow-up activities in one centralized location.

By reducing administrative work and improving communication, GoEngage helps your staff spend more time supporting children and families and less time managing paperwork.

GoEngage Resources:

• Health, Dental, Nutrition – How It Works

• Enter a health test or screening

• (Admin) Build a custom health history form

• Create and manage Individual Health Plans (IHPs)

• (Admin) Setup guide for Health History Forms

• Complete the Mental Health referral process

National Breastfeeding Month

Platform: Head Start

National Breastfeeding Month highlights the importance of supporting breastfeeding families and promoting healthy beginnings for infants. For Early Head Start programs, creating an environment that respects and supports each family's feeding choices is an important part of providing comprehensive health and nutrition services.

The Head Start Program Performance Standards recognize the importance of infant nutrition and require programs to support each child's nutritional needs through individualized planning, family partnerships, and ongoing communication. Learn more in 45 CFR §1302.44 – Child Nutrition.

This is a great time to review:

• Lactation-friendly spaces for families and staff.

• Individualized infant feeding plans.

• Family education and breastfeeding resources.

• Staff training and communication practices.

• Community partnerships that support breastfeeding families.

GoEngage Spotlight: GoEngage helps agencies support infant nutrition and strengthen family partnerships by bringing health, nutrition, family services, and communication together in one connected platform. With GoEngage, your team can:

• Document individualized infant feeding plans and other child health information.

• Track health and nutrition services while maintaining a complete history of follow-up activities.

• Share breastfeeding, nutrition, and wellness resources with families through the Parent Portal, family messaging, announcements, and downloadable documents.

• Document family partnerships and referrals to community resources that support breastfeeding and infant nutrition.

• Communicate securely with families to provide reminders, updates, and ongoing support.

• Maintain a complete audit trail of services, communications, and documentation to support compliance and monitoring.

Supporting breastfeeding families is about more than meeting a requirement—it's about partnering with families, respecting their individual choices, and ensuring every infant receives the healthy start they deserve.

GoEngage Resources:

• (Admin) Customize or build your own nutrition assessment

• Complete a nutrition assessment or screening

• Follow up with nutritional concerns

• (Admin) Determine age for infant nutrition assessment/screening

National Book Lovers Day — August 9

Platform: Head Start

Reading together is one of the simplest and most effective ways to build language, strengthen family connections, and prepare children for success in school.

The Head Start Program Performance Standards emphasize creating rich language and literacy experiences that promote children's learning and development while encouraging families to be active partners in their child's education. Learn more in 45 CFR §1302.31 – Teaching and the Learning Environment.

Celebrate National Book Lovers Day by encouraging families to:

• Read together every day, even if only for a few minutes.

• Visit their local library and explore free literacy programs.

• Share favorite books during classroom activities.

• Create a family reading routine at home.

• Talk about stories by asking children questions and encouraging them to retell their favorite parts.

GoEngage Spotlight: GoEngage helps agencies strengthen school readiness and family engagement by making it easy to share educational resources and keep families connected to their child's learning. With GoEngage, your team can:

• Share literacy activities and reading tips through the Parent Portal, family messaging, announcements, and downloadable resources.

• Post classroom updates and learning opportunities to encourage continued learning at home.

• Communicate with families about reading challenges, classroom events, and literacy initiatives.

• Share photos, daily journals, and classroom experiences that help families continue conversations and learning at home.

• Track family engagement activities and document participation to support ongoing partnerships.

• Provide resources in families' preferred languages to help make literacy activities more accessible.

Every story shared, every conversation sparked, and every book explored helps build the foundation for lifelong learning.

GoEngage Resources:

• Add activities to the Parent Child Activity Library

• Create parent-child activities

• Parent Portal: Send parent-child activities to the Parent Portal

• Send parent-child activities to parents and track their time

• (Admin) Setup guide for Parent-Child Activities

National Nonprofit Day — August 17

Platform: Head Start & CAP

Every day, Head Start and Community Action agencies change lives by strengthening children, supporting families, and building healthier communities.

National Nonprofit Day is an opportunity to recognize the dedicated staff, volunteers, Policy Council members, governing boards, community partners, and families who work together to make that mission possible.

The Head Start Program Performance Standards emphasize the importance of strong community partnerships, meaningful family engagement, and effective program governance. Success is built through collaboration—both within your agency and throughout the communities you serve. Learn more in 45 CFR Part 1302 – Program Operations and 45 CFR Part 1301 – Program Governance.

Take a moment this month to:

• Recognize the dedication of your staff and volunteers.

• Thank your Policy Council and governing board members for their leadership.

• Celebrate the community partners who help expand services for children and families.

• Highlight success stories that demonstrate your program's impact.

• Share your appreciation with the families who partner with you every day.

GoEngage Spotlight: GoEngage helps agencies strengthen collaboration, communication, and engagement across their entire organization. With GoEngage, your team can:

• Communicate with families through the Parent Portal, family messaging, announcements, and text messaging.

• Share resources, forms, and important updates with staff, families, Policy Council members, and other stakeholders.

• Track family engagement activities, volunteer participation, and community partnerships.

• Coordinate services across departments using Staff Collaboration, helping ensure everyone involved with a child or family stays informed.

• Document services, communications, and follow-up activities to support compliance, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and monitoring.

• Generate reports and dashboards that help leadership measure program performance and demonstrate community impact.

Strong nonprofits are built on strong relationships. By bringing communication, collaboration, and documentation together in one platform, GoEngage helps agencies spend less time managing administrative work and more time making a difference for children, families, and communities.

GoEngage Resources:

• Send emails and texts to parents

• Send a Quick Form to parents and families

• (Admin) Set up multilingual emails and texts

• Create a letter, email, or text template

Your Mission Deserves More Than Software

The best outcomes happen when technology, people, and processes work together.

Whether you're preparing for a federal review, strengthening family engagement, improving safety practices, or looking for more efficient workflows, our team is here to help you get the most out of GoEngage.

Already using GoEngage?

Our Training and Consulting teams can help you:

• Increase staff confidence

• Improve adoption of GoEngage features

• Streamline workflows

• Support continuous quality improvement

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Training@GoEngage.app | Consulting@GoEngage.app

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See how an all-in-one Head Start data management solution can help your program reduce administrative burden, strengthen compliance, and give your team more time to focus on what matters most—children and families.

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Save the Date: GoEngage Connect 2028

📅 Week of February 28, 2028

📍 San Antonio, Texas

GoEngage Connect is designed for Head Start leaders who want practical strategies, meaningful networking opportunities, hands-on learning, and direct access to the GoEngage team.

From compliance and reporting to family engagement, ERSEA, education, health, and operational best practices — Connect is all about helping agencies learn from one another and grow together.

More details, registration information, and session announcements will be shared in the future, but we wanted our GoEngage community to be the first to know.

👉 Join the interest list to receive future updates, announcements, and early registration details.

We can’t wait to see you again in 2028!

Feature Spotlight

Start with Clean, Complete Data

Platform: Head Start

The beginning of the program year sets the foundation for everything that follows—from reporting and monitoring to family services and child outcomes.

Taking time now to review records helps reduce corrections later.

Consider reviewing:

• Child demographics

• Emergency contacts

• Family information

• Classroom assignments

• Staff assignments

• Enrollment status

• Program options

GoEngage Tip: Use POP dashboards, alerts, and reports to quickly identify incomplete information before it becomes a larger issue.

New Year, New Family Engagement Plan

Platform: Head Start

Strong family partnerships begin long before the first day of school.

August is an excellent time to:

• Introduce families to your Parent Portal

• Verify contact information

• Encourage families to complete required forms

• Share important announcements

• Communicate upcoming events and orientation schedules

Creating positive communication early helps build trust throughout the year.

GoEngage Resources:

• Parent Portal: Invite parents to Parent Portal

• Verify parent email addresses

• Parent Portal: Send instant messages to parents

• How do I check which parents have activated the Parent Portal?

• Setup guide for Parent/Client Portal (Admin)

• Parent Portal: Simple Guide for Parents

GoEngage Tip: Build a Strong Attendance Culture from Day One

Platform: Head Start

Good attendance starts with clear expectations and consistent communication.

Before the program year begins, take time to help families understand:

• Why regular attendance is important for children's learning and development.

• Your program's attendance policies and expectations.

• How and when to report an absence.

• Transportation procedures and daily schedules.

• Who to contact with questions or concerns.

How GoEngage Can Help: GoEngage makes it easy to promote strong attendance habits before and throughout the program year. With GoEngage, your team can:

• Share attendance expectations through the Parent Portal, family messaging, announcements, and downloadable resources.

• Send automated reminders and notifications to keep families informed about important attendance-related information.

• Communicate schedule changes, closures, and transportation updates in real time.

• Track attendance trends with dashboards and reports to quickly identify attendance concerns.

• Document family communication and follow-up efforts to support attendance interventions and compliance.

• Strengthen family partnerships by providing families with easy access to attendance information and program updates.

By establishing clear communication from the very beginning, GoEngage helps agencies build a positive attendance culture that supports children's success.

GoEngage Resources:

• Create and monitor an Attendance Plan

• (Admin) Customize the attendance plan language in GoEngage

• (Admin) Customize your Attendance Policy

• (Admin) Automatically contact parents about unexpected absences

• Follow up on unexpected or chronic absences

• Track attendance

Community Action Spotlight

Platform: CAP

Helping Families Thrive Beyond One Program

Many Community Action Agencies serve families through multiple programs—including housing, energy assistance, food security, employment, financial literacy, transportation, and emergency assistance.

GoEngage helps your staff document services, referrals, outcomes, and follow-up activities across programs, giving your agency a more complete picture of the impact you're making in your community.

Learn How GoEngage Supports Community Action Programs

Community Action Best Practice

Platform: CAP

Start the Year with Clear Outcomes

As new program years begin, now is a great time to review your agency's outcomes, services, and documentation processes.

Ask yourself:

✔ Are staff consistently documenting services? Is this showing up on reports?

✔ Are outcomes clearly defined?

✔ Are referrals being tracked through completion and showing up on reports?

✔ Can leadership easily report on program impact?

Strong documentation today leads to stronger reporting tomorrow.

Every family interaction matters.

Whether you're providing emergency assistance, employment support, financial coaching, or family development services, documenting each service helps demonstrate your agency's impact to funders, leadership, and your community.

GoEngage helps connect services, outcomes, referrals, and follow-up in one place.

Many organizations operate both Head Start and Community Action programs.

GoEngage makes it easier to:

• Share referrals internally

• Reduce duplicate data entry

• Coordinate services across programs

• Track family outcomes

• Give leadership a unified view of services

When departments work together, families receive better support.

Want to learn more? Sign up for a demo today!

GoEngage Success Services

Platform: Head Start & CAP

Helping agencies maximize their investment in GoEngage

Your GoEngage subscription is just the beginning. Our Success Services are designed to help your agency maximize its investment, strengthen program operations, and build confidence every step of the way.

Whether you're onboarding new staff, preparing for monitoring, improving data quality, or looking to optimize your workflows, our experienced team is here to help.

Popular Success Services

✔ Personalized Training for New & Existing Staff

✔ Program Optimization & Best Practices

✔ Monitoring & Compliance Preparation

✔ Data Quality Reviews

✔ Workflow & Process Optimization

✔ Reporting & Dashboard Coaching

✔ Outcome Mapping & NPI Reporting

✔ Family Engagement Strategies

✔ Configuration Guidance

✔ Customized Consulting Based on Your Agency's Goals

Because every agency is different, every training and consulting plan is designed specifically for your program.

Explore GoEngage Success Services

We're Here When It Matters Most

At GoEngage, our commitment to your agency extends far beyond software. Whether you're preparing for a federal review or navigating Designation Renewal System (DRS) status, our team is here to provide personalized guidance and support when you need it most.

Designation Renewal System (DRS) Support

Platform: Head Start

Receiving a Designation Renewal System (DRS) designation can place significant demands on your leadership team. Between documentation requests, reporting requirements, program improvement efforts, and ongoing operations, it can be difficult to know where to begin.

If your agency is navigating DRS status, let us know. The sooner we understand your situation, the sooner we can identify ways GoEngage may be able to support your team.

Your DRS Support may include:

✔ Priority assistance from the GoEngage team

✔ A Compliance Partner Review meeting

✔ Personalized recommendations based on your agency's needs

✔ Targeted resources, best practices, and ongoing check-ins

While every agency's DRS journey is different, you don't have to navigate it alone.

Complete the DRS Notification Form

Want to learn more? Visit our DRS Support page.

Review Week Priority Support

Platform: Head Start

Federal reviews are important—and they can be stressful. That's why every GoEngage subscription includes Review Week Priority Support at no additional cost.

Simply let us know when your review is scheduled, and we'll make every effort to prioritize your agency during your review week.

During your review week, you can expect:

✔ Priority support from the GoEngage team

✔ Faster response times whenever possible

✔ Assistance with GoEngage questions and reporting

✔ Peace of mind knowing our team is ready to help

Our goal is simple: help your team stay focused on your review while we provide timely support behind the scenes.

Notify Us of Your Review Week

Your Success Is Our Priority

From annual reporting and federal reviews to DRS support and ongoing program optimization, we're committed to helping your agency succeed every step of the way.