Annual Report: program year-end report 2015-16

HEADSTART Year End Report

2015-2016 school year

HIGH FIVE FOR 50 YEARS OF HEAD START! Our Head Start programs participated in year-long celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of Head Start.

KCSL’s Head Start created special events and brought more awareness to the program since the national anniversary kickoff in October 2014. KCSL joined children and families from coast to coast to celebrate 50 years of success and renew their shared commitment to 50 more.

OUR MISSION: to protect and promote the well-being of children

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT/CEO & CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Dear Friends, Finding the correct answer is as simple as connecting the dots, right?

We all remember connect the dot puzzles as children. A perfectly clear image would emerge from a page simply by drawing lines between some sequential pattern of dots designated by numbers or letters. As long as the instructions were followed, the lines drawn straight, the same clear image appeared for everyone.

Despite the science behind it that early educational and social/emotional investments in a young child have lifelong benefits for society it is not yet an image clear to everyone. But just connect the dots: • When parents can provide safe, stable, and nurturing homes and have access to affordable quality early childhood education centers for their very young children, then children develop healthy brains that are ready to learn when school starts; • If a child’s brain is ready to learn, then they are more likely to read at grade level by third grade; • If a child reads at grade level by the third grade, they are very likely to embrace education and graduate from high school; • If a child graduates from high school, they can move on to higher learning, trade schools, or enter the job market with the appropriate social/emotional skills to become a contributing member of society; and • Employable, tax-paying citizens are critical to a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economy and communities that thrive.

In our current environment of changing public policy and funding priorities regarding children and education, it is important that the Kansas Children’s Service League (KCSL) continues to inform thousands of Kansans about how adversity in the lives of our very young children is having a devastating impact on health and economic outcomes for our state and country.

Since 1976, KCSL’s Head Start and Early Head Start program has grown stronger through meaningful collaborations with school districts, child care centers, local businesses, parents and other community volunteers. We are, together, connecting the dots for a brighter future in Kansas.

As the Kansas chapter for Prevent Child Abuse America, KCSL is proud to include these comprehensive early childhood education programs in our service array. We celebrate each of you who contributed to the success of our Mission and program in 2015!

With Appreciation,

John Bridson, Chairman of the Board

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Dona Booe, President/CEO

Head Start & Early Head Start: Background

LOCATIONS CIMARRON 1

Leoti 7

GARDEN CITY

Garden City 2 3 4 5 Ulysses 12 13 14

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Administration: 705 Ballinger 620-276-3232

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Center/Home-Based: 603 E. Cedar (620) 272-9611

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Center-Based: 4101 E. Hwy 50, #531 (620) 276-4323

Cimarron 1 3

Hugoton 6

Liberal 8 9 10

Home-Based Center-Based Administration

Satanta 11

Center-Based: 600 N 2nd St 620-855-3889

KCSL had a successful Head Start and Early Head Start program year. Serving 505 children in over 10 counties allowed us the opportunity to reach many families in Southwest Kansas.

HUGOTON 6

8 Pregnant Women

Center-Based: 304 E. 6th 620-544-4334

LEOTI 7

687

TOTAL # OF FAMILIES SERVED: 457 Head Start

222 Early Head Start

LIBERAL 8

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Provided educational opportunities to

Early Head Start provided services to

(ages 3 to 5 years old)

(ages 0 to 3 years old)

367 CHILDREN CENTER-BASED PROGRAMING in 4 out of 10 counties

Administration: 150 Plaza Dr (620) 626-5339 Center/Home-Based: 50 Village Plaza (620) 624-9220

SATANTA 11

108 CHILDREN

HOME-BASED PROGRAMING in 8 out of 10 counties

Center-Based: 108 W. Broadway 620-375-4933

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Center-Based: 603 Tecumseh (620) 649-2754

ULYSSES

Home-Based: 837 N. Baughman, Room E (620) 424-4320 Center/Home-Based: 921 N. College (620) 356-4180

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Funding from the Office of Head Start & State of Kansas FINANCIAL INFORMATION: FEDERAL FUNDS 2015-2016 Grant Year OBJECT CLASS

HEAD START

EARLY HEAD START

T/TA

NON-FEDERAL SOURCES

TOTAL $1,985,064

Personnel

$1,515,739

$469,325

Fringe Benefits

$444,424

$117,304

Travel

$0

$0

$0

Equipment

$0

$0

$0

Supplies

$93,565

$23,600

Contractual

$35,137

$0

$35,137

Construction

$0

$0

$0

Other

$467,756

$68,771

Indirect

$335,735

$88,546

Total

$2,892,356

$767,546

$561,728

$117,165

$593,437

$56,910

$424,281 $56,910

$748,375

$4,465,187

Non-Federal share resources are provided through the generosity of local donors, foundations and volunteers.

Community and parent volunteers provide approximately 47 percent of the non-federal share by providing valuable service hours assisting in the classroom and working with parents. In addition, local service providers offer professional services at a discount to our Head Start children and families. KCSL’s Head Start program would not be as successful without the investment from the communities.

THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS AND VOLUNTEERS!

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Funding from the Office of Head Start & State of Kansas: continued FINANCIAL INFORMATION: KANSAS EHS & KANSAS ELC FUNDS 2015-2016 Grant Year OBJECT CLASS

KANSAS EHS

KANSAS ELC

TOTAL $227,858

Personnel

$208,493

$19,365

Fringe Benefits

$52,443

$0

$52,443

Travel

$3,330

$0

$3,330

Equipment

$0

$0

$0

Supplies

$5,407

$6,338

Contractual

$0

$0

$0

Building

$14,109

$0

$14,109

Training

$23,511

Other

$7,930

$0

$7,930

Indirect

$41,364

$0

$41,364

Total

$356,587

$25,703

$11,745

$23,511

$382,290

Our services and advocacy efforts focus on PREVENTING CHILD ABUSE, STRENGTHENING FAMILIES and EMPOWERING PARENTS & YOUTH.

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Enrollment:

Head Start & Head Start Home-Based

HEAD START MONTH

HEAD START HOME-BASED

ENROLLED % OF FUNDED # of students ENROLLMENT

MONTH

ENROLLED % OF FUNDED # of students ENROLLMENT

May 2015

322

XXX

May 2015

39

85%

June

no school

n/a

June

no programming n/a

July

no school

n/a

July

no programming n/a

August

293

90%

August

29

63%

September

318

98%

September

28

61%

October

319

98%

October

32

70%

November

318

98%

November

32

70%

December

324

100%

December

33

72%

January 2016

319

98%

January 2016

28

61%

February

324

100%

February

39

85%

March

321

99%

March

40

87%

April

317

97%

April

34

74%

Due to difficulty maintaining full enrollment, a request was submitted to Region VII Office of Head Start to reduce the number of Head Start home-based slots and to convert some to Early Head Start home-based slots.

Family Dance Celebrates, Reaches Grant Requirements Our Garden City and Liberal Head Start staff hosted two successful Family Dance Nights for students and their families in spring 2016. Total, over 500 parents, children and extended family attended both events. Parents secured large donations through local businesses to help KCSL make these dances possible and reach our federally required in-kind grant match of $715,000. Sponsors included Seaboard, Coca-Cola, City of Liberal, Walmart and Seward Community College in Liberal; and Sylvia’s Designs, Sam’s, Tyson and Paleteria Tarahumara in Garden City.

The Liberal Activity Center and Garden Valley Church also CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

Enrollment:

Early Head Start & Kansas Early Head Start

EARLY HEAD START MONTH

ENROLLED % OF FUNDED # of students ENROLLMENT

KS EARLY HEAD START MONTH

ENROLLED % OF FUNDED # of students ENROLLMENT

May 2015

104

96%

May 2015

33

80%

June

108

100%

June

33

80%

July

105

97%

July

34

83%

August

102

94%

August

23

56%

September

98

90%

September

27

67%

October

103

99%

October

30

73%

November

102

94%

November

31

76%

December

104

100%

December

34

83%

January 2016

96

92%

January 2016

34

83%

February

106

98%

February

41

100%

March

107

99%

March

41

100%

April

107

99%

April

41

100%

Family Dance,

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offered their facilities for the dances at no charge to KCSL or the families in attendance. Along with all the food, dancing and fun, parents received information on summer resources to ensure services continued for their families. Family Dance Nights create opportunities for parents, children and KCSL staff to engage in enjoyable activities together. Family engagement contributes to children’s school readiness and healthy development. As with any Head Start event, our parents set extraordinary examples and always pitch in to help sustain our important early education work with their families.

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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

CLASS Observations The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is an observation instrument developed to assess classroom quality in pre-school programs. The CLASS dimension are based on developmental theory and research suggesting that interactions between students and adults are the primary mechanism of student development and learning.

CLASS AVERAGES FOR 2015/2016 PROGRAM

NATIONAL

LOWEST 10%*

Emotional Support

5.19

6.03

5.6562

Classroom Management

4.45

5.8

5.2708

2.22

2.88

2.2261

Instructional Support

*A score at this level or below will result in re-competition for the Federal Head Start grant.

School Readiness Goals KCSL’s Head Start has developed school readiness goals for children birth to 5-years-old. Goals are based upon the Head Start Early Learning Framework, Kansas Early Learning Standards and the program curriculum--Creative Curriculum. Feedback from stakeholders, local school districts, KCSL Head Start staff and parents was obtained.

APPROACHES TO LEARNING Children will increasingly demonstrate ability to regulate themselves in order to persist at tasks; they will demonstrate independence, initiative and creative expression.

SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Children will show interest in personal relationships with other children; they will learn to manage emotions and will engage in positive relationships with adults; they will express care and concern for others.

LANGUAGE & LITERACY Children will be able to communicate needs and wants and demonstrate ability to use increasingly complex language. Children will demonstrate interest in books and will make marks that represent objects or actions. Dual Language Learners will demonstrate increased competency in their first language while development skills in English.

COGNITION, MATHEMATICS & SCIENTIFIC REASONING Children will develop self-expression through increasingly detailed and sophisticated ways; they will demonstrate that the spoken language is composed of smaller segments of sound and begin identifying letters of the alphabet; they will ask and answer questions about books read to them.

PERCEPTUAL, MOTOR & PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT Children will actively explore to understand themselves, others and objects; they will learn problem solving strategies; they will compare quantity and numbers, begin to understand addition and subtraction of numbers. Children will begin to ask questions, make prediction and analyze results.

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BELOW Widely-Held Expectations Winter

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# of children in all finalized checkpoints

2015-2016 Outcomes CENTER-BASED & HOME BASED OPTIONS COMBINED

200

175

150

125

100

75

50

25

0

Spring

MEETING/EXCEEDING Widely-Held Expectations

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Education & Success

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2015-2016 Outcomes:

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This report represents children 3 to 5-years-old enrolled and finalized during all three checkpoints. Data indicates a significant growth period between the fall and winter checkpoints, which consisted of 20 weeks. Growth over the winter and spring checkpoints was not as significant, however the checkpoint period was only nine weeks.

% of Child Meeting or Exceeding Widely-Held Expectation

CHILD OUTCOMES GROWTH REPORT 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Fall Social Emotional

Winter Physical

Cognitive

Spring Language

Literacy

Mathematics

Growth by Content Area SOCIAL EMOTIONAL: 43 percent of children entering the program were Meeting/Exceeding Widely-Held Expectations. At the spring checkpoint, 88 percent were Meeting/Exceeding, an increase of 45 percent.

PHYSICAL: 47 percent children entering the program were Meeting/Exceeding Widely-Held Expectations. At the spring checkpoint, 86 percent were Meeting/Exceeding, an increase of 39 percent.

COGNITIVE: 42 percent children entering the program were Meeting/Exceeding Widely-Held Expectations. At the spring checkpoint, 82 percent were Meeting/Exceeding, an increase of 40 percent.

LANGUAGE: 44 percent children entering the program were Meeting/Exceeding Widely-Held Expectations. At the spring checkpoint, 88 percent were Meeting/Exceeding, an increase of 44 percent.

LITERACY: 40 percent children entering the program were Meeting/Exceeding Widely-Held Expectations. At the spring checkpoint, 92 percent were Meeting/Exceeding, an increase of 52 percent.

MATHEMATICS: 24 percent children entering the program were Meeting/Exceeding Widely-Held Expectations. At the spring checkpoint, 80 percent were Meeting/Exceeding, an increase of 56 percent.

OVERALL GROWTH IS STEADY ACROSS ALL DOMAINS

with the highest gains in Mathematics and Literacy and the lowest gains in Physical and Cognitive.

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Health Services KCSL paid for $7,412 of health and dental services for families that were uninsured and unable to pay.

IMMUNIZATIONS START 432 HEAD children received

201 On May 18, 2015, the children and teachers from KCSL’s Head Start program planted rose bushes in honor of Head Start’s 50th anniversary. The planting was south of 503 S. Main in Garden City and 44 Village Plaza in Liberal. Exactly 50 years ago on that day, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood in the White House Rose Garden to announce the creation of Project Head Start, a federal effort designed to ensure at-risk children across the nation received a quality early childhood experience.

EARLY HEAD START children received

DENTAL SERVICES START 371 HEAD children received HEAD START 152 EARLY children received

Disability Services Families Learn Savings Curriculum, Refinance Debt KCSL offered all Head Start and Early Head Start families the opportunity to learn more about household budgeting and the importance of saving money using the FDIC financial literacy curriculum. We hosted trainings at our Garden City, Liberal and Ulysses locations in a three-session format and served a total of 50 parents. Women of Purpose grant dollars provided up to $25 in match money for each participant who opened a savings account. As a result of these events, two parents decided to return to school to obtain their GED, five families began working to rebuild their credit and $26,000 was saved by families requesting to refinance debt. Community partners for this event include Kansas State Extension Office, Sunflower Bank and Grant County Bank.

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HEAD START children (IEP)

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EARLY HEAD START children (IFSP)

Monitoring Events From Nov. 16 to Nov. 20, 2015, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) conducted a Fiscal/ERSEA (Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance) review.

NO AREA OF NONCOMPLIANCE WAS FOUND DURING THE COURSE OF THE REVIEW.

From May 2 to May 5, 2016, ACF also conducted a Comprehensive Services/School Readiness review.

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FAMILY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES

KCSL served Head Start and Early Head Start children on the Individualized Education Program (IEP) and Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP).

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