2019-2020 Head Start Annual Report

2019-2020

HEAD START ANNUAL REPORT

Table of Contents

01 Early Childhood Happenings
02 School Readiness for Children & Families
03 Who We Serve: Our Families & Children
04 Health & Nutrition
05 Education Services
06 Family Engagement in School Readiness, Services and

Governance
07 Collective Impact
08 Budget and Financials

Early Childhood

1Happenings

The 2019-2020 school year challenged us in ways we could have never expected, and
we found we were up to the challenge. This school year we moved from being in-person,
fully hands-on to creating virtual classroom spaces for children to thrive. Our staff rose to
the challenge and exceeded all expectations.

Even in the virtual format, we have worked to engage not only the children we serve,
but also our families. This year we saw staff support not only their families, but also the
community as a whole. From diaper and food distributions to decreasing the digital
divide, staff worked closely with families to ensure immediate needs were met.

Wayne Metro focuses every day on safety, quality early childhood education, and strong
family support services. We continue to train, coach, and practice in all these focus areas.
Our amazing staff exceeds rigorous educational standards while providing a caring,
nurturing environment for children and families. Wayne Metro continued to increase staff
retention rates this past year by advancing professional development, benefits, and on-
going appreciation efforts.

Thank you to all our wonderful families, staff, and community partners!
Together we are ensuringschool readiness for our children.

Sincerely,

Jessica Moore
Early Childhood Services Director
Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency

ChilSdchroeolnRe&adinFeassmforiliesProject High Five, Wayne Metro’s early childhood education program, offers a whole-family approach with

integrated services to achieve school readiness for babies and children from birth to age five. Wayne Metro

2welcomed 1072 children and their families in the 2019-2020 school year at its fourteen centers in nine Metro

Detroit communities.

Project High Five focuses on the four central program goals below to achieve school readiness for our young
students and their families:

1. Increase family stability, empowerment, and 2. Enhance inclusive educational services for

self-sufficiency. children ages birth to five of all abilities and cultures
in the domains of: approaches to learning, social
and emotional development, language and literacy,
cognition and perceptual, motor and physical
development.

Half of families assisted with a support service or School Readiness
referral in addition to early childhood education. increased all domains
as shown by average
Child Observation
Record (COR) scores.

3. Provide optimal learning environments that 4. Recruit, retain, and develop staff with the

promote the physical and socio-emotional health and knowledge, skills, and cultural competency to provide
safety of children, families, and staff. the highest quality services for all Head Start and Early
Head Start children and families.

100% of children have health insurance and have Staff retention increased to
accessible physical and dental care.
90%over

Our FamWihloieWse S&ervCe: hildrenChildren and families are eligible to attend Project High Five based on Head Start, Early Head Start and

Great Start to Readiness criteria. Wayne Metro Head Start had 880 children ages three to five, and Early Head
Start had 192 children ages birth to three. Included in the number served are 24 children who received home-

3based services; these Early Head Start home-based services are for children ages birth to three and pregnant

women or caregivers. Our students and families have diverse backgrounds and share the priorities of work and
quality education.

INCOME & ELIGIBILITY

Head Early
Start Head
Start
(Ages 3 to 5)
(Birth to Age 2)

ETHNICITY LANGUAGE

41% 58%
37%

39%
18%

4% 3% .13% .13% 1% 2%

PARENTS & CAREGIVERS
773 300 49% Over 76%

Health & NutritionWayne Metro Head Start Health Services staff support families to ensure their children are healthy and ready to

learn. Wayne Metro coordinates with numerous healthcare providers, such as those listed below. Many of these

4partners participate in a quarterly Head Start Health Advisory Committee to discuss trends and share information.
MEDICAL & DENTAL HEALTH

Staff work with parents to secure health insurance and medical and dental homes, or a healthcare provider
identified as primary care physician or dentist.

Head 98% of children have a dental home Early
Start of children have health insurance Head
of children are up-to-date on immunizations Start
(Ages 3 to 5) of children have a medical home
(Birth to Age 2)

82% of children received
preventative dental care

NUTRITION

All children share family-style meals during breakfast, lunch
and snack times as well as brush their teeth following meals.
Wayne Metro partners with the Child and Adult Care Food
Program (CACFP)to meet nutrition needs of children and
Gleaners Community Food Bank to help meet nutrition
needs of families. Regie Rainbow by the National Kidney Foundation is the research-based nutrition curriculum
used to spotlight healthy eating.

MENTAL HEALTH

Young children vary in their skills, knowledge, backgrounds and abilities. Wayne Metro takes a coordinated
approach to ensure children receive individualized supports essential for school readiness. Mental Health and
Disability Services staff and specialized consultants meet with teachers and families to understand mental health
and disabilities as well as access interventions as needed.

Children with Individual Education Plan (IEP) Trauma Smart training began for all staff in September
or Individualized Family Service Plan (IEFSP) 2019 preceded by a year-long fundraising effort. Trauma
Smart is an evidenced-based training and coaching
Head Start: 12% model to create a trauma-informed environment with
more resilient caregivers and students that improves
Early Head Start: 11% students’ school readiness. The training includes Trauma
Smart Parenting Connections sessions for parents and
caregivers. Trauma Smart uses a train-the-trainer model
so the curriculum will be sustainable beyond 2019.

Education ServicesProject High Five uses the research-based HighScope curriculum that addresses the needs of the whole

child. Staff use the HighScope Child Observation Record (COR) to measure student progress toward School
Readiness Goals using a scale from 1 to 5 - with 5 meaning the child is School Ready. The School Readiness
Goals align with child development benchmarks in the five Head Start domains. The graph below shows

5gains in School Readiness despite only measuring student learning prior to school closures from September

2019 to February 2020.
COR Domain Scores by Head Start and Early Head Start, September 2019- February 2020

Wayne Metro utilized internal
Instructional Coaches who work
to reinforce all the teachers’
exceptional work and find ways to
develop teachers’ skills. Instructional
Coaches help staff use new tools,
including LENA Grow implemented
in 2019 in our EHS classrooms. LENA
Grow is an innovative, research-
based professional development
program for early childhood teachers that uses regular feedback from LENA
technology to improve the talk environment in the classroom.

ReFaadminielyssE, nSgearvgiecmesen&tGinovSecrhnoaonl ceAll staff foster a Family Partnership by offering parents and caregivers

varied opportunities to improve their child’s school readiness. Trained Family

6 Advocates work with each family to identify their interests, goals and how they
can assist in achieving goals. All staff apply a whole-family approach to school
readiness. Pictured are the many ways children, families and staff achieve
goals together. In order to accommodate the impact of the school closures,
teachers and families received virtual support. Teachers and staff quickly
adapted their practices to engage students and families via the new virtual
format with help from Instructional Coaches and new agency technology.

Staying connected through Weekly food and supply distributions Diaper and supplies drop-offs
new technology

POLICY COUNCIL MEMBERS

Policy Council members are elected by Parent Committees at all our centers across Wayne County to represent
the Head Start and Early Head Start programs. In this volunteer role, Policy Council meets monthly to engage
in shared decision making regarding continuous program improvement toward meeting Wayne Metro Head
Start program goals. Members set bylaws and review program budgets, services data, grant proposals, and
participate in the staff hiring process.

THANK YOU TO THE 2019-2020 HEAD START POLICY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OFFICERS:

ACCESS Shear Poupard
Sanna Alkhateeb Taiwan Green Natasha Windless
Sikeneh Achi Janielle McWilliams
Beck Antheaus Lige
Monique Chavarria Harper Woods
St. Albert the Great La'toya McCain
Cortland Suleiman Arfah
Arlene Hunter Danielle Sorrell Community Council
Francian Cooper Representative
Mitchell
M&M Genevieve Taylor Lashawn Bridges
Nirvana Bazzi Mohammed Rahman
Saizi Khaled Ma’Nisha Walls Governing Board
Jametta Lily
Edna Walker

Collective ImpactProject High Five reaches across Wayne County from Harper Woods to Westland. This reach depends upon the

generous contributions of numerous community partners. The Office of Head Start recently awarded Wayne

7Metro five new sites for a total of 14 shown on the Wayne County map below. Wayne Metro is grateful for all the

support to provide quality early childhood education.

Living Arts Wolf Trap, Michigan State University’s Community Music School, and the Michigan Council for the Arts
and Cultural Affairs provide and fund educational arts activities for children, parents and staff
Trauma Smart, a behavioral health methodology, provides staff and caregivers the tools to help mitigate trauma.
This training starts this coming school year from combined funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Foundation, Karen Colina Wilson Foundation, MGM Resorts Foundation, and Michigan Health Endowment Fund.

The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation fund LEAP to
Teach, Staff Financial Wellness, and Positive Emotional
Development and Learning Skills, or PEDALS, which helps
staff reinforce positive student behaviors.
Reading is Fundamental and the Molina Foundation
donated books distributed to students.

Budget and

8 Fiscal Ye

HS Ops EHS Ops HS TTA EHS TTA HS
Non-Federal
$37,075
Funds Available $8,416,527 $3,120,784 - $85,972 $1,577,472
- - - -
Federal $37,075
$8,416,527 $3,120,784 $85,972 $1,577,472
Non-Federal -
5,162,591 1,799,231 - - 328,597
Total 1,427,887 590,837 37,075 - -
15,806.65 2,053.80 - 85,972 -
Expenses - - -
Personnel - - - - -
Base Pay 413,359 205,241 - - 84,640
Peronnel - 184,170 59,907 - - 39,286
Fringe - -
Travel - - $37,075 - -
1,212,713 463,514 $85,972 1,013,226
Equipment
- - -
Supplies $8,416,527 $3,120,784 $1,465,749

Contractual

Construction

Other

Indirect

Total

d Financials 9
ear 2019

EHS HS EHS HS Non-Fed EHS Non-Fed Total
Non-Federal Start-Up Start-Up Start-Up
Start-Up Fed + Match

$121,354 $63,879 $184 - - $13,423,246
- - - - --
- - $13,423,246
$121,354 $63,879 $184

33,524 - - - - 7,323,942
11,398 - - - - 2,030,123
- - - - 140,907
- - - - --
- 63,879.44 - - - 791,127
24,007 - - - - 283,362
- - - - --
- - 184.06 -
52,425 - - - 2,742,062
- $63,879 $184 - --
$121,354 - 13,311,524

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Wayne Metro Head Start Centers

Wayne Metro Head Start ACCESS Wayne Metro Head Start Wayne Metro Dearborn Heights Head Start
2651 Saulino Court, Dearborn, MI 48120 Jefferson Barnes Community Vitality Center 4671 Parker, Dearborn Heights, MI 48125

Wayne Metro Beck Head Start 32150 Dorsey St, Westland MI 48186 Wayne Metro SHEAR Head Start
27100 Bennett, Redford, MI 48240 26141 Schoolcraft Rd, Redford, MI 48239
Wayne Metro Garden City Head Start
Wayne Metro Hamtramck Head Start Schoolcraft Radcliff Center Trombly Elementary School
12031 Mitchell, Hamtramck MI 48212 820 Beaconsfield Ave, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
1751 Radcliff St, Garden City, MI 48135
Wayne Metro Harper Woods Head Start Art Space
19258 Kelly Road Harper Woods, MI 48225 Wayne Metro Taylor Head Start 13615 Michigan Ave, Dearborn, MI 48126
6442 Pelham Rd, Taylor MI 48180
Wayne Metro Cortland Head Start
138 Cortland, Highland Park, MI 48203 Wayne Metro - Dearborn East Head Start
13020 Osborne St, Dearborn, MI 48126
Wayne Metro M&M Head Start
5273 Kenilworth, Dearborn, MI 48126 Wayne Metro Dearborn South Head Start
Salina Elementary

2700 Ferney St, Dearborn, MI 48120

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