Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2015/2016- $3,547,667.00 (All Sources)

Economic Improvement Council, Inc.

Head Start Program

Annual Report

June, 2015–May, 2016

Public and Private Funds Received

Department of Health and Human Services $3,053,655.00

E-RATEE-Rate $27,741.00

USDA NC Pre-K $270,420.00 In-Kind Supplies, $169,800.00 Volunteers, and Other $45,031.00

Budgetary expenditures were used to meet the medical, dental, socialization, physical, educational services and activities for children. Additional funds were utilized to assist children with disabilities, and their families. Facilities were maintained and repaired to ensure all of them met day care license requirements, as well as for, utilities, staff salaries and fringe, classroom and office supplies and materials, to provide staff and parent training and other essentials involved in serving children and families.

Proposed budget for fiscal year 2015/2016- $3,547,667.00 (all sources) Head Start Program Overview Funded Enrollment 350

Children and Families Served

Average Percentage of % of children that Financial Audit received medical and Monthly Eligible Results dental exams Enrollment Children 100% Medical 99% Served No Findings 98% Dental Exams – 90% 2% left program before treatments were completed

Total # Meals Total number Number of Served: children served of volunteer 131,521 hours with Breakfast – 45,295 Disabilities Lunch – 46,861 47 2,735 Snack – 39,365

2 additional mini Transportation buses were used to Total Head transport children to Start In-Kind 226 Children were medical appointments provided in 10 counties $763,414.00 transportation in 7 of the 10 counties. Curriculums Used 1) Education – Creative Curriculum 2) Social and Emotional – Early Learning Second Step

Assessments Used Education – Teaching Strategies GOLD – a web-based monitoring tool used by the Program to assess child outcomes

Disabilities – Social and Emotional – e-DECA P2

Screening Tool – Brigance Head Start Screen

Educational Outcomes Children are performing within widely held expectation in each of the nine (9) objectives. Widely held expectation, based on research, is where typical developing children of a specified age range should be at particular times during the program year.

Preparing Children for Kindergarten The Creative Curriculum for Pre-school is implemented in each classroom as the basis for learning and school readiness to prepare children in all aspects of development which included social-emotional, cognitive and physical growth.

Teachers prepared the children to be creative in all areas of classroom activities. Children were also involved in computer skills. Teachers involved children in creative thinking of new ideas by asking questions and learning through trial and error.

The CLASS (Classroom Assessment Scoring System) was used to determine how effective teachers engaged and interacted with children. As children were being prepared to become school ready, teachers created a positive climate within the environment that helped to expand children’s language and thinking skills and introduced advanced language during conversations and reading of books. Our program made significant gains in each of the three domains of CLASS. Below is a graph that represents the overall scores for the program year of 2015-2016. Data is collected in the fall, winter, and spring. Center Supervisors invited public school Principals and Kindergarten Teachers (from receiving schools) to participate in the Child Development Curriculum Meetings held in each county in October. Other service providers are invited to the Curriculum meeting to share input. The purpose of this meeting was for providers to share with the parents what is expected of their child before the transition. For centers that did not have school personnel present, printed information from the providers, including those from the public school was shared with the parents. The information from the public schools denoted school readiness requirements so that teachers could adapt the curriculum to ensure developmentally appropriate practice was implemented as they prepared children to be school ready.

The Program provided transportation for children to the receiving schools in all ten (10) counties during the transition process.

Parent/Family and Community Engagement Activities

Classroom Substitutes and Volunteers Training Parent Committee Field trips Meetings/ Trainings

Parent Committee and Policy Council Father/Child Meetings Olympic Day

Father’s Night

Parent Orientation Parents Event for Children and their fathers

Classroom male volunteers Father Literacy Night

Honor Your Parent of the Year Community Culture Day Management Training Other Activities:

Food Nutrition Activities School Readiness Team Meeting Health Disability Advisory Meeting Nutrition Committee Meeting Transporting and/or accompanying children to medical/dental appointments Mobile Dentist for dental exams at two centers for enrollees in four counties Preschool screenings Referral system for recruitment of children Substitute cooks Parents volunteering in the kitchen NC Special Olympics Project Unify Second Step Parent RAP Session Nutrition Science Education provided by the NC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Information for transitioning children provided by the Albemarle Regional Health Services e-DECA P2 Transition  Parents  Children  Kindergarten Registration

Parent Trainings: Child Abuse & Neglect Domestic Violence Nutrition Education English as Second Language Class CPR Advocating for Children with Special Needs

Number of Children Served with Disabilities

1. Speech/Language 36

2. Developmental Delayed 10

3. Orthopedic Impaired 0

4. Autism 0

5. Visual Impairment 1 Including Blindness