STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY Head Start & Early Head Start Annual Report 2012 - 2013 Fairplay Family Center, Stark County Board of Developmental Disabilities, All Gods Children, YWCA and the Margaret B. Shipley Clinic. Through the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework in conjunction with parent, family and community engagement, SCCAA created environments of educational success and life long learning. Enrollment Wm. Hunter Head Start /Early Head Start Center The Stark County Community Action Agency SCCAA, began providing its Head Start program in 1991. This federally funded, comprehensive program has been proven to prepare children for kindergarten and have a significant impact on their lives. Our school readiness goals focus on the growth and development of the child as well as the growth and development of the family. The SCCAA Head Start Program promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of education, health, nutrition, social and other services to enrolled children and families. In 2012-2013, the Stark County Community Action Agency directly operated Head Start / Early Head Start centers in the cities of Canton, Massillon, and Alliance. In addition, children were served through child care partnerships with A Place to Learn & Grow, Little Learners, 1366 MARKET AVENUE NORTH, CANTON, OH HS Funded Enrollment HS Avg. Monthly Enrollment EHS Funded Enrollment EHS Avg. Monthly Enrollment 855 96% 94 100% Children Served Head Start 1,073 Early Head Start 184 Total 1,257 131% Families Served Total Families Served Two Parent Families One Parent Families 1,139 273 866 PHONE: 330-454-1676 - sccaa.org HEAD START PROGRAM STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY The Stark County Community Action Agency Head Start/ Early Head Start Program ensured that over 800 children received required health screenings such as, lead, hemoglobin/hematocrit, height/weight, blood pressure, vision and dental services. Medical Exams % Dental Exams % Head Start 843 79% 930 87% Early Head Start 77 43% 105 59% The Head Start/ Early Head Start Program hosted a Health, Nutrition & Wellness Fair that involved many community providers such as Aultman Hospital, Mercy Medical, SARTA, Stark State College, and the Stark County Health Department. The Fair provided over 200 children and families with services and resources that would improve not only their livelihood but their overall health. Health Services has established a partnership with the Canton Community Health Clinic that will benefit our program for the 2013-2014 school year. The Stark County Community Action Agency Head Start Program provided 53,934 breakfast meals, 79,908 lunch meals and 52,826 snacks to 956 enrolled Head Start and Early Head Start children through June 2013. Menus were written with input from the children’s parents and Head Start and Early Head Start Staff. Menus were approved by a registered dietitian with an emphasis in providing fresh fruits, vegetable and whole grains. Stark County Community Action Agency Head Start/Early Head Start program recognizes the important role parents play in the education of their children. We provide parents opportunities to expand their knowledge in child development, health and nutrition, mental wellness, financial literacy, and advocacy through trainings and hands on experiences. Over 55,000 volunteer hours were logged for the 2012-2013 school year. Parents volunteered their time in the classrooms, on advisory boards and policy council and assisted the program by extending learning potential in the home that directly supported the curriculum. Community collaborations, from PNC Bank, United Way, Early Childhood Resource Center, Stark State College, Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children, Massillon Lion’s Club, Case Western Reserve, Aultcare, Canton Symphony Orchestra and many more, assisted SCCAA in providing parents and children with additional educational experiences, or assisted with programy United Wa nteers g Volu rin a C f o y Da matic goals. HEAD START PROGRAM STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY % of Developing Milestones The Head Start program implemented the researched based, nationally recognized Creative Curriculum in its centers and all of its partner centers. The Creative Curriculum is aligned with the assessment system Teaching Strategies GOLD for which all Head Start/Early Head Start children are assessed based on direct observations three times a year. The Head Start approach to school readiness means that “Children are ready for school, families are ready to support their children’s learning, and schools are ready for the children.” We set an expectation of excellence in the children’s status and progress across the following ten (10) domains: Social & Emotional Development Logic & Reasoning Social Studies Physical Health Literacy Languages Math Approaches to Learning Science & Technology Art Excellence in these domains will improve age appropriate readiness for kindergarten among children participating in the program. Additionally, Head Start/ Early Head Start is staffed by professionally trained and credentialed educators and assistants maintaining a staff to child ratio of 1:10 in full day classes and 1:9 in part day classes. The SCCAA Head Start Program establishes program goals for improving the school readiness of children and demonstrates that such goals align with the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework, State early learning guidelines, and the requirements and expectations of the schools for children participating in the program. HEAD START PROGRAM STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY Under Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment, 723 children were assessed. The percentages represent children who were at or above their typically developing milestone in the spring of 2013. There was on average a 20 percent increase in the categories of social/emotional, physical health, language, approaches to learning, logic & reasoning, literacy and math. In the categories of science & technology, social studies and art, there was an average 42 percent increase from fall to spring 2013. Expenditures Personnel $ Fringe Benefits 2,344.112 Budgeted $ 2,433,849 1,515,369 1,755,077 5,148 6,000 Supplies 397,383 207,775 Contractual 933,265 864,332 1,169,848 1,184,935 82,781 101,092 721,498 808,463 Travel Other Training & Technical Assistance Indirect Total Expenditures $ 7,169,404 $ 7,361,523 In-Kind $ 1,365,525 $ 1,840,381 Total $ 8,534.930 $ 9,201,904 HEAD START PROGRAM STARK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY From November 12-17, 2013, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) conducted its triennial on-site monitoring review of the Stark County Community Action Agency Head Start and Early head Start programs. Based on the information gathered during the review, a report was issued by Health & Human Services; and it was determined that our Head Start and Early Head Start programs are in compliance with all applicable Head Start Program Performance Standards, laws, regulations, and policy requirements. Observations were conducted in pre-school, center-based classrooms using the Pre-K Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). The CLASS tool looks at three domains (emotional support, classroom organization and instructional support) and ten dimensions (positive climate, negative climate, teacher sensitivity, regard for student perspectives, behavior management, productivity, instructional learning formats, concept development, quality of feedback and language modeling) of teacher-child interactions and measures those observed interactions on a seven point scale. The results of this assessment will be compared to the national average scores and presented later this year. In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, an audit report was issued on June 28, 2013. Areas for consideration were the Stark County Community Action Agency's internal control over financial reporting and tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts and grant agreement and other matters and the results of these tests. The audit also evaluated the appropriateness of accounting policies used, the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, and the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. There were no agency audit findings related to the financial statements of FY 2012. Start With Music joined two of the Canton Symphony Orchestra’s most successful early learner program, SymphonyLand and Kinder Concerts, to form a series of sequential learning experiences for 855 children enrolled In our Head Start Program. SymphonyLand is a series of instrumental trio performances designed to introduce children ages 3-5 years of age to music through a foundation of children’s literature. The trio performance at our Head Start sites and Kinder Concert orchestra performance at the Cultural Center for the Arts build one upon the other as literacy and music concepts are introduces and reiterated. The innovative approach to arts integration for early learners increases the probability of sustained learning for Head Start children through repeated and sequential musical experiences supported by scripted narratives that carefully incorporated the focus concepts. Particularly for those students who have had limited access to these opportunities, the excitement and engagement intrinsic in live music facilitates motivated learning as other ways of thinking and learning are explored. Head Start Administrative Offices 3015 Mahoning Road N.E. Canton, OH 44705 Ph: 330456-6218 Fax: 330-430-3646 William H. Hunter Center 3015 Mahoning Road N.E. Canton, OH 44705 William Malloy Center 1134 Walnut Avenue Massillon, OH 44646 Franklin Center 321 Franklin St. Alliance, OH 44601 Metro Center 400 E. Tuscarawas St. Canton, OH 44702 SCCAA Administrative Offices 1366 Market Avenue North Canton, Ohio 44714 Phone: 330-454-1676 Fax: 330-454-6850 sccaa.org