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1. One Agency Multiple Funders: Casa Central
Early Care & Education Program Collaboration Model Description
1. Model (Please check only one. Complete separate forms for different collaboration models.)
2. Collaboration Type (Check all that apply to this collaboration model.)
3. Partnership Initiated By
4. Demographics
5. Schedule
6. Number of Children Served Full-Day/Year by Location, Setting & Age
7. Total number of children served by organization
8. Total number of children served by partner’s organization (if applicable). Note: this means an early care & education partner with whom you are collaborating. Agencies that checked “One Agency, Multiple Funders” in question 1, page 1 of this survey will NOT complete this question.
9. Funding used to support full-day/year services (Check all that apply.)
10. Administration/Management (Check either yes, no or not applicable – NA – for each item.)
11. Has the collaboration had an impact on the partner’s internal practices with regard to (check yes or no for each item):
12. Program Services (Make 2 checks for each item – 1 to indicate which partner is primarily responsible for direct service delivery and the other to indicate which children receive that service – all or just the collaboration children.)
13. Primary objectives for beginning this collaboration (check all that apply)
14. Collaboration Development & Management
15. Program Components: Please answer the following questions about your collaboration program. Show in column 2 which partner is responsible for each program component. Check which children receive the program component in the last 2 columns - either all children in the classroom(s) or just the collaboration children.
Answer the following questions IN AS FEW WORDS as possible, still giving a picture of how your collaboration works. Use bullet point lists whenever possible. 16. List/describe any other program components included in the collaboration that are not described in items 12 and 15 (pages 3-4). Casa is a delegate of the Ounce of Prevention for Head Start & a site administered child care site and blends both services into the 2-5 year old program. Casa also has 2 classrooms for 2 year olds at one site not supported by EHS. 17. Please describe how budgeting and cost sharing among funding sources is done. How do you decide how costs will be shared? What are the financial arrangements between partners? The education, disabilities & family support portions of the program are charged to Head Start. Management, nutrition, transportation & administrative support are aligned with child care. Staff & program costs will be at 100% on one contract or 50% on each. 18. Please explain how your collaboration is staffed. Include classroom and support staff and tell how this is changed/different from your regular program. Who funds the staff’s salaries? Who supervises the staff and who employs them? What salaries and benefits are offered collaboration staff and is this different from other staff? Head Start: lead teachers, education coordinator, family support staff, 50% Site Directors. Child Care: drivers, kitchen staff, administrative assistant, teacher assistants (50%) & aides, teachers in 2 year old classroom.19. Please tell about your written agreement, if you have one. Include: what the agreement covers (section titles); term (what the time period is); if finances are part of the agreement and how these were figured; etc. Annual contract with Ounce for Head Start (January 1 through Dec. 31); based on cost/child; contract specifies staffing patterns, curriculum usage and other Head Start Program Performance Standards. 20. Please describe the training system for your collaboration. Include what kind of training is done, how costs are shared among funding sources and/or partners, and how it has changed since the collaboration began. Grantee (Ounce): monthly content coordinator/director meetings; annual pre-service conference; other education/disability/family support training, as needed. Casa: annual Head Start/Child Care mandated training calendar. EQUIP grant to work with Erikson Inst.21. Please give any other details about your collaboration that you believe are important, but not covered elsewhere. Ounce monitoring/technical assistance/training has really helped to improve the program & push it from child care into early learning. Monthly meetings are really great. 22. If you could start your collaboration over again, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? A better alignment of all the competing/conflicting requirements. 23. What advice do you have for agencies/homes starting new collaborations? Eligibility requirements for HS/CC/State PreK conflict & will impact enrollment & retention as well as program operations & documentation. The level of outcomes, activity & content expertise required has changed this program (HS) & yet even with child care funds, we still are being paid at the paraprofessional level.
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