Description: Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families, FCCS serves 1,000 children in 15 Head Start facilities, five of which are agency-owned.
FCCS’ Head Start program provides a learning environment that supports children’s growth in the following domains: language and literacy; cognition and general knowledge; physical development and health; social and emotional development; and approaches to learning.
Head Start staff also provide comprehensive services to enrolled children and their families, which include health, nutrition, social, and other services determined to be necessary by family needs assessments, in addition to education and cognitive development services. Head Start services are designed to be responsive to each child and family’s ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage.
Head Start emphasizes the role of parents as their child’s first and most important teacher. FCCS Head Start staff build relationships with families that support: family well-being and positive parent-child relationships; families as learners and lifelong educators; family engagement in transitions; family connections to peers and community; and families as advocates and leaders.
Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns, as the provider may have already addressed some or all issues. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Date | Type | Violations | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2025-12-02 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2025-04-02 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2025-04-02 | Violation | 849 | .0803(12) |
| Leftover medicines were not returned to the parent after the course of treatment was completed, after authorization was withdrawn or after authorization had expired and/or medication was not discarded within 72 hours of completion of treatment or withdrawal of authorization. In space 2, an emergency medication for a child no longer enrolled at the program was not returned to parents or discarded within 72 hours as required. | |||
| 2025-04-02 | Violation | 844 | .0803(2)(a) |
| Prescribed medicine was not in original labeled container or accompanied by signed and dated written instructions from prescribing physician or health care professional. In space 3, an inhaler used with a child for asthma was not in the original labeled container. | |||
| 2024-10-03 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2024-04-10 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
| 2024-04-10 | Violation | 1834 | .0801(b) |
| Application did not have a medical action plan attached for any child with health care needs such as allergies, asthma, or other chronic conditions that require specialized health services. A medical action plan was not on file for a child with a chronic condition requiring daily medication at school. | |||
| 2024-04-10 | Violation | 428 | GS 110-91(12); .0508(a) |
| A current activity plan was not posted for each group of children for reference. The activity plan posted in Space #1 was dated March 4-8, 2024. | |||
| 2023-10-10 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2023-04-19 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-11-01 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-10-20 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-09-22 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
| 2022-05-31 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
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