Family and Community
Engagement Program Highlights

HS/EHS Family Outcomes Survey (SETA Operated Program)

At the beginning of every program year, SETA conducts the Childcare Results (CCR)   Strengths, Needs, and Interest Parent Survey (SNIPS) that measures individual family stability and immediate needs and interests.  This allows the program staff to identify any needs or trends that surface for families.  Collected data is analyzed by classroom, by individual site, and across the entire program.  Based on the results, SETA provides resources including parent workshops on topics that have been identified in the SNIPS survey.

At the end of the year, another survey called the Family Outcomes Survey is conducted to measure parents’ opinions on how much they and their families have benefited from Head Start.  Parents rate the program by selecting a response of “Did Not Need Help”, “Not Helpful”, “Somewhat Helpful”, or “Very Helpful”. The questions correspond to the seven Family Engagement Outcomes in the Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.

 

Head Start Family Engagement Outcomes:

Family Well-being
Positive Parent-Child Relationships
Families as Lifelong Educators
Families as Learners
Family Engagement in Transitions
Family Connections to Peers and Community
Families as Advocates and Leaders

Center-Based and Home-Based Parents rated the SETA Head Start

Percentage of Responses
“Very Helpful”

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Overall, how much did the program helped you – by teaching to encourage creative play at home?
Percentage of Responses
“Very Helpful”

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Overall, how much did the program help your child – in valuing your child’s strengths?

In 2023-2024 program year, center-based and home-based parents rated the SETA Head Start highly in Families as Lifelong Educators outcome, 80% of respondents rated  as “Very Helpful” in teaching them to encourage creative play at home, understanding different ways that their children learn, and building their confidence that their children will succeed in elementary school.

Parents also rated SETA Head Start highly in Positive Parent-Child Relationships outcome, 79% of parents rated the program as “Very Helpful” in valuing their child’s strengths, valuing home language in their child’s learning, and learning how change affects their child’s behavior.

ReadyRosie Parenting Curriculum

ReadyRosie is a research-based parenting curriculum used by the Sacramento County Head Start programs to support family engagement. Families use online learning games and videos to help them with in-home teaching activities and to provide guidance in dealing with specific parenting experiences. Videos in the resource library are aligned with the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) and the Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP) assessment tools to support current lesson plans.

About ReadyRosie

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% – Ready Rosie Average Utilization Rate Countywide

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Videos viewed by families

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Recommended Playlists were sent out this year

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% – of engagement in ReadyRosie came from playlists sent by the program

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By engaging with the ReadyRosie videos, families had opportunities to learn about language and literacy

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By engaging with the ReadyRosie videos, families had opportunities to learn about math
In 2023-2024, the use of Ready Rosie videos enhanced parenting education to support child outcomes.
  • 2,391 opportunities to learn about social-emotional development.
  • 6,070 opportunities to learn about health and wellbeing.
  • 466 opportunities to learn about family well-being.
  • 3,185 opportunities to learn about positive parent-child relationships.
  • 3,185 opportunities to learn about families as lifelong educators.

 

23 families (51 individual participants) attended the in-person ReadyRosie Family Nights focused on math, science, and family engagement activities.

Parent Cafe Program

SETA hosted a parent cafe’s for parents on the Parent Advisory Committee.  Using questions related to the protective factors, families engaged in conversations identifying their support network, and what kinds of social and personal support they needed.  Parents were also invited to attend a multi-day workshop on parenting and discipline.  Parents learned about their emotional triggers and how to use positive guidance techniques with their children.  In addition, sites hosted individual family activities, which included tea parties, STEM workshops, and financial literacy workshops with financial planners.

5 PROTECTIVE FACTORS PROMOTED BY PARTICIPATION IN PARENT CAFE’S:

 

  • Building parental resilience
  • Developing concrete support in times of need and using communication tools to build social and emotional competence in children.
  • Increasing knowledge of parenting and child development
  • Making positive social connections

MALE INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM

For the program year 2023-2024, SETA offered workshop opportunities for families to enhance their connection to peers and community, family well-being, and positive parent-child relationships. Families had the opportunity to participate in the launch of the countywide Male Involvement program, with a workshop titled “My Daddy is a Pretzel”. This allowed the parent and the child to engage in play and yoga together.

Recruitment and
Community Outreach

In 2023-24, the SETA Children and Family Services Unit participated in multiple in-person recruitment and community outreach activities. Staff hosted recruitment booths in Sacramento County events including International Kids Day, Halloween Festival, Spring Festivals, Rio Linda County Fair Festival, WIC Breast Feeding Celebration, National Night Out, diaper distributions, library events, and community baby showers. Head Start was also represented in community health and resource fairs such as Healthy Day Sacramento, Celebrando Nuestra Salud, community resource fairs, and job fairs.

Every month, staff attended the Network Café, where over 70 representatives from local health-services organizations were gathered to learn about services, collaborate on issues, generate solutions to serve their community, build partnerships, and share updates about their community. Staff also presented at various community organizations to inform about the Head Start Program and how to refer families to the program. Staff participated in presenting at Women’s Empowerment to inform class participants of program options.

Other community partnerships included the Sacramento Crisis Nursery and Alta California Regional Center which sent direct client referrals. The Sacramento Public Library donated 5 different library kits, to Head Start centers in the 95815, 95833, and 95838 zip codes and to all families in the Home Base option.

At these community events and connections, program inquiries were generated and Head Start community awareness was raised.