Northern Delaware Early Head Start Consortium
3/4/98
 

Participants:  Nadine Heim, Cindy Durham, Pedro DuPres, Ramona Way, Eric Zeichner, Regina Ringold, Cindy Palikowski, Deborah Thomas, Martha Buell, Rena Hallam

Location:  Wilmington Head Start

Next Steps:
1. The next consortium meeting is on Wednesday, 4/1/98 at 6:30.  The location will be Wilmington Head Start.
2. Rena will send out a list of the policy council representatives with the minutes from this meeting.
3. Rena and Martha will explore the large family child care option for the Brookmont site.
4. The Child Development and Health sub-committee will meet to discuss program policies in this area.  A proposal will be presented at the next consortium meeting.

Updates:
1. The policy council meeting was cancelled in February.  Michael Gamel-McCormick will be working with a UD student in planning for another meeting.  It is anticipated that this meeting will take place in the next 4-6 weeks.  All consortium members will be notified with specific details.
2. Martha reported on the UD family child care meeting.  Eleven family child care providers attended this meeting.  So far, we have received six applications from providers.  Nadine, Martha, and Rena will be following up with these providers and conducting the initial screening.
3. Martha provided an update on the Brookmont site.  It appears that this site may be available for expansion, however, it is currently not feasible to operate the program as it was originally proposed due to changes in the sub-contracting agency.  Martha is continuing to work the university to determine appropriate next steps.
4. Deborah provided an update on the WHS center.   WHS is moving ahead on determining needs for the targeted classrooms.  Difficulties with the UD sub-contract will slow the process down somewhat.  However, WHS still plans to open sometime in April.
5. No report from New Castle County Head Start.
6. Rena outlined the approach that the Child Development and Health committee was taking on proposing across-program procedures (e.g. developmental and health screenings).  Specifics will be outlined at the next meeting.
7. Martha and Deborah discussed the procedures outlined by the program design and management committee concerning processes that would be the same for all NDEHS sites and those that would be different for each site.  A list of the processes to be shared across site are attached.