The Region 9 Head Start Association (R9HSA) is excited to announce a new collaboration with Spark Space Creative to support agencies with four unique services to elevate your social media impact. Our trainings and resources will help your agencies to increase awareness, build engagement with designed camera-ready art and text to ensure you gain followers, and maximize your use of promotions across platforms.

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Training Courses – Live and on-demand

Through a fun and engaging set of six customized 60-minute training sessions, we will help you level up your social media marketing. In addition, let our content calendar subscription provide content you can use all year long, plug-and-play social media toolkits with graphics and text, as well as personalized consultation for a deeper dive into any of your marketing needs. Don’t miss it. Live training starts in January!

Per person access needed.

Introductory Registration Fee:  $599 Member/$659 Non-member*

*Registration fee includes access to both live and on-demand

Social Media Calendar Subscription – Kicks off January 2022

Agency subscribers receive social media calendars arriving each month with camera-ready art and text. Spark Space Creative will create 8 graphics and post text suggestions (2 per week) highlighting timely dates and topics, along with appropriate hashtags and handles. Included will be a tutorial and sample calendar posts so agencies can learn to create their own content calendars. This is an excellent resource to ensure agencies integrate messages across platforms and engage followers to act.

Single access per agency needed.

Six Month Introductory Subscription Fee:  $599 Member/$659 Non-member

Social Media Toolkits for Staff Recruitment, Child Enrollment, and Head Start Pride

Spark Space Creative is developing three unique campaigns, complete with camera ready art, text, and suggestions on utilization for most critical topics of Recruitment of Staff, Enrollment of Children, and tools to better brand your Head Start and Early Head Start services in the communities you serve on your social media platforms. Each toolkit will contain 20 graphics (10 for Facebook/twitter, 10 for Instagram). This customizable post text will provide agencies a deep dive into various topics for plug and play social media management. Toolkit content access will be managed using The Social Press Kit. This ensures 24/7 access and support.

Single access per agency needed.

Six Month Introductory Subscription Fee:  $599 Member/$659 Non-member

Social Media Bundle

This bundle includes the following three components:

• Six customized 60-minute training sessions
• Social media calendar subscription
• Social media toolkits for staff recruitment, child enrollment, and Head Start pride

Introductory Registration Fee:  $1,797 Member/$1,977 Non-member

Consulting and Coaching for Agencies

To accelerate your social media impact or to help you get started, Spark Space Creative is available to provide customized support to agencies on an hourly basis. 60-90 minute calls can be scheduled on topics of agency choosing such as; curating content, strategic analysis, advanced social media, marketing planning, overall communications support.

Single access per agency needed.

Hourly rate $165 Member/Non-member

*Total amount to be decided upon meeting with Spark Space

Register by January 7th to take advantage of our introductory pricing!

The Collaborators

Spark Space Creative is a branding and design studio committed to being positive change-makers. We partner with nonprofit organizations to build their brands, tell their stories, and showcase their impact and importance. During the last 10 years we’ve developed a focus in the education sector, especially the early childhood education space.

We are passionate about taking the stress out of social media marketing! By using multiple social media platforms and strategies, we will meet the families you want to reach…where they are! We will provide them with fun, interesting and useful content that will encourage them to keep checking in after they follow you! We know how to create clear and concise messages. We also run on fun, creative ideas to take your promotion to the next level! We are always ready for a good brainstorming session and here to answer your questions!

The R9HSA seeks to elevate the Head Start community. Through creative collaborations we are able to bring forward professional and affordable communication tools to ensure local agencies optimize their social media presence. In addition, Region 9 is focused on the immediate needs for agencies to recruit the very best staff, reach all of the eligible children and regularly communicate the comprehensive services available to children and their families.