This brief describes the motivations Head Start grant recipients cite in applications to covert enrollment slots from Head Start to Early Head to supply infant-and-toddler care. Understanding how and what applicants identify as shifting community needs is an important facet of providing responsive, high-quality, and comprehensive services to young children and their families. This brief focuses specifically on grant recipients that applied to convert to center-based slots, as the rationale to convert slots may differ for those who wish to convert to home-based versus center-based slots. (author abstract)