Description: The program offers a broad range of individualized services in the areas of education and child development, special education, health services, nutrition, parent/family development.
In addition, the range of Head Start services is responsive and appropriate to each family's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage.
Serving western Arizona for over three decades, WACOG Head Start has a long tradition of delivering high quality services designed to enhance the healthy development of children. The primary focus of WACOG Head Start is children and their families. It is the program's mission to provide the foundation for the development of self-sufficient, healthy, caring and productive children and families. It is Head Start's role to ensure the provision of opportunities of parents to become active participants in their children's growth and development. Children's 'social competence' is an overall goal of the program and is defined as a child's everyday effectiveness in dealing with the responsibilities that attend both school life and home life. Social competence also takes into account a child's social, emotional, cognitive and physical development, and how these aspects are interrelated.
Since 1990, WACOG Head Start has more than quintupled its enrollment in its tri-county service area. The program is funded to serve 1,000 children and their families representing a diverse population in terms of culture, ethnicity, and language. The program has 20 centers with 42 classrooms and is staffed by over 130 full and part-time teaching staff.
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| Survey Date | Date Corrected | Rule/Statute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-09 | 2021-12-13 | article 3 | R9-5-301.F.1.2. |
| Findings: The Team Leader reviewed 2 staff files. Staff 1 lacked documentation of submitting evidence of freedom from infectious tuberculosis on or before their starting date of employment. | |||
| 2021-12-09 | 2021-12-13 | Article 4 | R9-5-402.A.1-12 |
| Findings: The Team Leader reviewed 2 staff files. The file for staff 1 lacked documentation of the staff member's child care experience, documents required by R9-5-301 - documentation of a negative TB test, and the staff member's written statement attesting to current immunity. | |||
| 2020-12-10 | 2020-12-16 | Article 2 | R9-5-208.B.1-6. |
| Findings: Based on staff statement and Team Leader observation the facility has not had access to an outdoor activity area since reopening in September 2019 and an outdoor activity area was not available for use at the time of the inspection. | |||
| 2020-12-10 | 2020-12-16 | article 3 | R9-5-304.B.1-9. |
| Findings: The Team Leader reviewed children's Record cards. Several children's Record cards lacked the name and telephone number of the child's health care provider, the name of the individual to be contacted in case of injury or sudden illness of the child, and the name and contact telephone number of individuals authorized to collect the child in case of emergency. | |||
| 2020-12-10 | 2020-12-16 | article 4 | R9-5-402.B.1.2. |
| Findings: The director stated one of the staff present during the inspection is a substitute from another WACOG site and did not have the required staff file on site with all required items. The substitute had their fingerprint clearance card with them. | |||
| 2020-12-10 | 2020-12-16 | Article 6 | R9-5-602.C.1. |
| Findings: The director stated the required outdoor activity area had been unavailable for use due to construction at the school. | |||
| 2020-12-10 | 2020-12-16 | Article 6 | R9-5-602.C.2.b-c. |
| Findings: The director stated the children attend 6 hours per day. The Team Leader observed that the required square foot requirements were not being mee in the licensed indoor activity area. | |||
| 2019-12-09 | 2019-12-11 | article 3 | R9-5-304.B.1-9. |
| Findings: The Team Leader reviewed 12 children's Record cards. The Record card for child # 1 lacked the name pf the individual to be contacted in case of injury or sudden illness. | |||
| 2019-12-09 | 2019-12-11 | Article 6 | R9-5-603.C.2. |
| Findings: The Team Leader observed and staff stated some sections of rubber on the outdoor climbing equipment was cracking and breaking away from the metal equipment. | |||
| 2018-01-24 | 2018-01-29 | Article 6 | R9-5-603.E.1.2. |
| Findings: The Team Leader observed that the fall zone at the base of the yellow slide on the west side of the outdoor activtiy area was hard packed. | |||
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