Head Start History
It was in this year that Head Start began.
What is 1965?
Manitowoc, Two Rivers, Howard, DePere, and Ashwaubenon
Where are our current Head Start classrooms located?
Each child receives these 3 types of screenings within 45 calendar days of enrollment.
What is vision, hearing, and developmental screening?
Program staff use this system to track many things, including attendance, referrals & outcomes.
What is ChildPlus? (our data management system)
Head Start Performance Standards require this percentage of children enrolled to be children with disabilities.
What is 10%?
To promote school readiness of children ages birth to five from low-income families by supporting the development of the whole child.
What is the national goal of Head Start?
This is the position that Director Shelly Bishop did for many years prior to becoming CESA 7 Head Start Director.
What is Child Development Manager?
Enrolled children are required to have physical & dental exams completed & documentation on file within how many days of enrollment.
What is 90 days?
Family Advocates complete this many home visits per program year with each family.
What is three?
Classroom staff use this research/evidence-based curriculum that emphasizes hands-on, project-based learning and focuses on child-initiated activities in a flexible, responsive way.
What is Creative Curriculum?
Head Start was conceived under this president's 'War on Poverty' based on the recommendation of child development experts.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
52 in Manitowoc County and 45 in Brown County
What is the number of Early Head Start children we are funded to serve?
Our program partners with these 2 community partners to offer dental exams to our enrolled children.
What is LCHC (Mtwc Co) & OHP (Brown Co)?
This document is created with families to identify goals and support progress.
What is a Family Partnership Agreement?
Early Head Start uses this parenting curriculum with families in our home-based program.
What is Conscious Discipline?
"Disadvantaged" children attended an 8 week summer program that served as a demonstration project designed to help break the cycle of poverty.
What did the first Head Start program look like?
This policy-making group is composed of parents and community representatives.
What is the Policy Council?
Nutrition staff take the temperature of all hot foods prior to serving. Temperature must reach this temperature but then maintained at 140 degrees.
What is 165 degrees?
A program needs to provide these people with opportunities to participate in the program as employees or volunteers.
Who are parents?
Our Head Start program uses one of these two observational instruments, dependent on center-based or home-based programming, to assess the quality of services we are providing.
What are CLASS and HOVRS?
This extension program of Head Start didn't begin until 1994 and aims to serve prenatal women & children ages 0-3 and their families.
What is Early Head Start?
When put together, these 4 words create the acronym CESA.
What is Cooperative, Educational, Services, and Agency?
Early Head Start children need to have their hemoglobin and lead levels tested at these ages.
What is 12 months & 24 months?
These 5 words, when put together, form the acronym ERSEA.
What is Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance?
EHS Home Visitors are required to offer this many home visits per program year to each family.
What is 46?