Otoe Missouria Head Start

Make staff more aware of educational approach for three through five year olds.
To improve mental health services.
Improve on the identification of childrens nutritional needs.
Improve developmental sensory and behavioral services.
Improve program planning services.
Improvements within the Family Service Component.

We currently have a written plan that is revised every program year as needed and the Education Coordinator will be conducting training on our curriculum to let the staff understand the importance of on-going assessment to make sure child outcomes and domains are being reached.

The Tribe has a Mental Health Specialist as well as the Program has contracted a Mental Health Specialist to collaborate with to implement the mental health component of our program. The tribe has a Nutritionist on the Complex and we work with them on developing nutrition programs. The program has also sent out information to the community members on nutrition services and has informed parents on the child nutrition requirements and regulations. The developmental, sensory and behavioral services continue to improve. The program has medical, dental, vision, speech and language professionals available so the students receive these services as needed. We look forward to being able to offer better quality services through our qualified Disabilities Coordinator. Overall program planning needs to be improved.. Family Service Component has improved over the past year but look forward to it improving in the next year. We are working diligently on having parents and community members more involved within the program.

Overall, our programs goals and objectives in the next year will be a priority. These are our long range goals and we are on the right track to achieving these goals and objectives. We are currently working on implementing the plans that we have developed to achieve success. It will take time to get the community involved in what they need to be involved with. Over the past year we have seen the community interest in the program grow and people getting more involved. To achieve these goals it will take participation and collaboration from all community members. The program cannot achieve them alone. It is nice to see the Tribe participating with the Head Start Program. We now have the collaboration with the grantee to get the services that we need to obtain our goals. The Head Start staff looks forward to what the future brings and the involvement of the community within the program.

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Child Ages:

3 years - 5 years

Licenses & Accreditations:

Oklahoma Department of Human Services - One Star

Special Needs:

To support individualization for children with disabilities in Head Start.

Preschool:

Yes