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Austin's Leading Early Childhood Development is now hiring!
Bilingual Visiting Teacher
- High School Diploma or GED
- Reliable Transportation
-Some Social Service Experience Preferred
Applicants must be flexible.
Apply in person at the address to the right.
No phone calls please.
Since 1972, Child, Inc. has helped thousands of children prepare for entering school and achieving academic success. Our Head Start centers service over 2, 000 children and infants from low-income families at over 50 site locations throughout Travis County. All services to children and families are provided at no cost to them. Families qualify by meeting the Federal Poverty Guidelines.
Child Inc is not daycare. We are an early childhood development program offering Early Education, Health Services, Dental Services, Nutrition Services, Mental Health Services, Social Services, Parent Training and Parent Involvement.
Our comprehensive program provides a rich learning environment, which addresses the child's educational needs as well as their health, mental health and nutritional needs and provides services for any disability concern. We also encourage parents to become involved in their child's education as well as offering tools for strengthening families including:
Mental Health Parent Support Group
Parenting Skills Courses
Healthy Marriage and Relationship Workshops
Disabilities parent Support Group
Early Head Start Support Group
Weekly Radio Talk Show for Dads
Service Delivery Models:
Program services are provided through several different program options. The actual services delivered under these options are delivered in several different ways. Child Inc., calls the methods of delivering services "Service Delivery Models."
The services under the Full Day Full Year and Full Day Part Year models are all delivered in standard stand-alone Head Start Classrooms. Currently 30 of those Head Start classrooms are in stand-alone Head Start and Early Head Start Centers. Four of those classrooms are on public school campuses but the enrollment is not combined with pre-school classrooms.
(There are other classrooms on public school campuses where the children are dual-enrolled.)
Three of the classrooms are "collaborative classrooms" in stand-alone Head Start centers are currently operated in collaboration with the public school. The public school provides the teacher and the children are dual-enrolled in Head Start and Pre-K.
The demand for summer service is usually lower than during the school year, so at the end of the school year, some classrooms shut down. Child Inc. is funded for 12 months for about 31 classrooms in Head Start.
There are currently ten Early Head Start classrooms and all but one of these are housed in stand-alone combination Head Start/Early Head Start centers. The one that is not in a stand-alone Head Start center is on a High School campus. It serves the children of the High School children and is operated as a collaborative site with the high school.
Home-Based
Currently, Child Inc. serves 36 Head Start children via Home-Based services. These children are all served by Visiting Teachers employed by Child Inc.
Locally Designed Options
As demonstrated by the amount of detail offered in the Community Assessment section, for years Child Inc. has done an assessment of the needs in Travis County. Such extensively detailed assessments have given rise to a number of "Service Delivery Options" which had to be specifically designed to meet local circumstances.
These Service Delivery Models include:
1) School Partnership Split Day (Flip Flop Model)
Where the children are served part of the day in a public school classroom and part of the day in a Head Start classroom that is on the public school campus. Currently Child Inc. has two classrooms of this type, that also include an extended day third session; and six classrooms where children are served in part-day public school, where staff are present in both the morning and afternoon sessions.
2) School Partnership with Head Start Aide Model (Collaboration Aide)
This is a collaborative arrangement with the public school designed to reduce the staff/child ratio in public school classrooms. Child Inc. sends an Aide into the public school Pre-K classroom, the children are dual-enrolled, and other Head Start services are provided as wrap-around services.
3) School Partnership with Visiting Teacher Model
This Service Delivery Model was designed to address two separate needs - the need to improve staff/child ratios in public school pre-K classrooms and the need to increase the interaction with parents (based on Perry Preschool results, which had good classroom ratio combined with frequent home visits). Under this Service Delivery Model, a Visiting Teacher employed by Head Start splits her time between visiting the public school classroom (improving the ratio) and visiting the child's home (working with the parent). The children served by all Service Delivery Models show progress substantially better than that achieved by the National Head Start FACES assessment, but children served by this particular model show the greatest increases. This model serves 462 children.
4) Child Care Partnerships with Head Start Aides
This model is similar to the Public School Model where the Aide goes into the classroom with the Public School Teacher in order to improve the child/teacher ratio. However, in this case, the Head Start Aide goes into a state-supported childcare classroom. The children are dual-enrolled in Head Start and state-supported childcare. Child Inc. has around 5 classrooms where this type of coordination is underway. The Service Delivery Model where there is collaboration between a School District and Head Start is the model where the Public School teacher comes into a Head Start classroom. That model is described under the Full Day Full Year/Part year Program Option.
5) Transitional Home Base
This Service Delivery Model is a home base program designed as a temporary placement for children and families who are transitioning between programs. Enrollment in this model will fluctuate but can serve as many as 50 children/families. These children are served by a Visiting Teacher.
School Readiness
An independent study done by the Yale Bush Center for Early Childhood Development has confirmed that
"Austin Head Starters are ready for school as shown by their performance in a number of assessments encompassing early literacy, early numeracy, pre-writing skills, vocabulary, and social skills."
