Since 1965, Family Services Child Development (FSCD) has been serving preschool children in Forsyth County. FSCD enrolls 499 preschoolers for Head Start and provides an Extended Day Program for parents who are working and/or in school. FSCD operates Head Start programs in Kernersville, at Mineral Springs Elementary School, on the campus of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU), and the Sarah Y. Austin Child Development Center in Winston-Salem.

FSCD also partners with five private childcare centers, including Bethlehem Community Center Inc., Church Child Care, Maxx Kinder Kollege, TLC Learning Academy, and North Point Academy LLC. Head Start funds are combined with North Carolina Pre-K funding at these sites.

In collaboration with the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools, FSCD also provides a Head Start classroom in in three elementary schools: Griffith, North Hills and Old Town.

In March 2015, Family Services was awarded a federal grant to establish an Early Head Start (EHS) program in Forsyth County. EHS will provide high quality, age-tailored services to 120 children from infancy through 3 years of age, in collaboration with seven community childcare centers. The EHS program will become operational in the fall of 2015.

Based on years of experience and proven success, FSCD focuses on key elements of school readiness: social skills, language, literacy, math, science, self-help and creative arts and helps parents become self-sufficient. Additional services include health screening, social and emotional health screenings and services, nutrition education, volunteer activities and opportunities for involvement, social services (when needed), and evaluation and follow up services to help children with disabilities and special needs cope and adapt.

HEAD START PROGRAM

The total number of families served at center-based programs 5 days per week: 499 (621 children served 2014-15)

The average monthly enrollment: 499

The percentage of children served that are income eligible: 96%

Total of number of classes operated: 27

THE PERCENTAGE OF ENROLLED CHLDREN THAT RECEIVED MEDICAL AND DENTAL EXAMS:

Medical exams: 41% (252)

Dental exams: 5% (34)

*The numbers retrieved from PIR

RACE

Black or African American: 61% (380)

Hispanic or Latino origin: 28.8% (179)

White, non Hispanic or Non Latino origin: 7.4% (46)

Unspecified: 1.1 % (7)

Asian: 0.9% (6)

American Indian or Alaska Native: 0.3% (2)

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 0.16% (1)

PRIMARY LANGUAGE:

English: 77% (479)

Spanish: 22% (136)

Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages: 0.16% (1)

East Asian Languages: 0.3% (2)

Unspecified: 0.5% (3)

Community partners are essential to Family Services’ Child Development Centers. They offer expertise to families in diverse areas. They also volunteer and donate food, clothing, toys, books, and money. Below are just a few of our partners:

The Stocked Pot & Co. - Chef Donald McMillan “Chef Don”

Winston-Salem Fire Department

University of North Carolina of the School of the Arts – ArtistCorps/AmeriCorps

Santa’s Helper

Jack & Jill

Winston-Salem Children’s Museum

SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now)

BB&T Bank and Woodforest National Bank

Forsyth County Department of Public Health

Forsyth County Department of Social Services (DSS)

Smart Start of Forsyth County

Project Hope

Work Family Resource Center

In collaboration with our community partners, Family Services’ Head Start program provides Forsyth County’s young children and their families educational, health, nutrition and social services that enhance each child’s readiness for school. Our goal is to prepare our preschoolers for kindergarten.

Head Start collaborates with the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools to match educational goals on school readiness, with emphasis (especially for the older children) on social skills, language, literacy, math, science, self-help and creative arts. We share relevant information on each child to make the transition to kindergarten as smooth and successful as possible.

Family Services annually enrolls 450 four-year-olds in Head Start. In measuring the use of logic and reasoning, four-year-olds enrolled in Family Services’ Head Start begin the year below the average score for all children of the same age and finish the year well above the average.

Last spring, Home Depot’s Hanes Mall Boulevard employees once again made major improvements to the courtyard garden areas at Head Start. They provided plants, soil and seeds and also planted vegetables, fruits and flowers.

Working with Forsyth County Department of Public Health we served more than 25 Head Start families with the 14-week series of The Incredible Years® Parenting Programs. Incredible Years® offers a set of interlocking, comprehensive, and developmentally based programs to improve parenting skills. The programs that compose the Incredible Years® Series are guided by developmental theory on the role of multiple interacting risk and protective factors in the development of conduct problems. The programs are designed to work jointly in order to promote emotional, social, and academic competence and to prevent, reduce, and treat behavioral and emotional problems in young children.

Cash funds received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,

Administration for Children and Families $4,250,505

Smart Start of Forsyth County $177,150

The USDA CACFP food program $195,935

Various private funding sources $12,828

Sub total cash support $4,636,418

Program volunteers $319,000

Donated facility use $422,000

Various operating expenses $149,000

Sub total In-Kind NFS* $890,000

Total revenue (cash and in-kind) $5,526,418

*Total Non-Federal Share (NFS) was approximately $1,080,000, which exceeded the requirement. $190,000 of NFS was comprised of non-federal cash support.

The most recent audit of our compliance with OMB Circular A-133 compliance requirements found that Family Services, Inc. complied in all material respects, with the compliance requirements that could have a direct and material effect on our Head Start program for the year ended June 30, 2015.

Our Head Start program’s most recent Federal Reviews occurred April 20-24, 2015 (Environmental Health and Safety component EnvHS) and May 18-22, 2015 (Fiscal/ERSEA components). Based on the information gathered during the review, no area of noncompliance was found in the EnvHS review. We were found to be out of compliance in one of nineteen areas in the Fiscal/ERSEA review. We have taken appropriate corrective action in this area and expect approval following review by the Office of Head Start.

1200 S. Broad Street | Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101

336.722.8173 | www.familyservicesforsyth.org