VILLA RICA HEAD START

Community Action for Improvement (CAFI)

Subrena Thompson
TECH 4101 – Spring 2015
Human Resources for Administrative and Technology Managers
Dr. Christie Burton
April 20, 2015
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
CONSULTATION
Training
Center Manager: Tomekia Hudson
Spoken on the phone with Ms. Hudson, regarding the center main function and information on the
current employees and training knowledge that the employees currently attend ongoing.

Teacher Assistant: Mondatoya Thompson

Meet with twice with Ms. Thompson on the structure of the educators and staff members. Her
hiring process, salary, education and on the job training.

POINT OF CONTACT
Villa Rica Head Start
Community Action for Improvement (CAFI)
311 Cleghorn Street
Villa Rica, Georgia 30180
Phone: 770-456-0370
Fax: 770-456-0374
www.cafi-ga.org/villa-rice.html
History
Community Action for Improvement (CAFI) is public organization
that were created by the federal government and found in 1966.
CAFI has provided services for over 45 years to low income people
in five surrounding counties services are including Carroll, Coweta,
Heard, Meriwether, and Troup counties. The CAFI organization is
a free, federally funded program that provides educate to pre-
school children with structured learning developing their skills for
the next level of education.
Mission
The Head Start program mission is to promote school readiness
by enhancing the social and cognitive development of low-
income children through the provision of health, educational,
nutritional, socially and other services that are determined to be
necessary based on the family needs assessments. The 1994
reauthorization of the Head Start Act established a new Early
Head Start program for low-income families with infants and
toddlers.
Goal
CAFI vision is to become an
agency with unlimited avenues
of resources for our
communities, taking
advantage of every
opportunity for growth
beginning with the children.
CAFI value is to be a well-
respected organization of
excellence in which services
and resources and delivered
with the utmost integrity,
recognizing the diversity of
the customers that are serve.
 SWOT Analysis
Internal Factors: Strengths and Weaknesses CAFI Program
• Human resources - staff, volunteers, board members, target population directors, policy groups
• Physical resources - your location, building, equipment
• Financial - grants, funding agencies, other sources of income
and management
• Activities and processes - programs you run, systems you employ teams can use this
• Past experiences - building blocks for learning and success, your reputation in
the community
resource to guide them
External Factors: Opportunities and Threats
through the Strengths,
• Future trends - in your field
Weaknesses,
• The economy - local, national, or international Opportunities, and
• Demographics - changes in the age, race, gender, culture of those you serve or
in your area
Threats assessment.
• The physical environment
• Legislation
• Local, national or international events
Brief for Consultants
The Villa Rica Head Start/CAFI is taking advantage of the
consultant to undertake community engagement training
process for their current employees and other supporters
within the faculty.
Workplace Orientation
All new employees are schedule for orientation on the first 5 days
of employment. The orientation is location in LaGrange, Georgia
at the main office for CAFI organization for employment benefit,
educational, and company knowledge.

• Management (Center Manager)

• Educators (Lead Teacher and Teacher Assistant
• Staff Members (Food Preparer and Janitor)
 Employees
Job Titles Job Descriptions Paid
Manager is responsible for managing a comprehensive Head Start Program
as outlined in the Head Start Performance Standards with respect to Child
Center Manager (1) $30,000 Salary
and Family Outcomes; Supervision of Head Start Center Teachers; Staff
Training and Facility Management.
Provide oversight and support to Early Head Start partnerships. Implement
Lead Teacher (2) short term and long range planning for service delivery, monitoring and $13.00 Hourly
training.
To perform duties as an instructional assistant as assigned by the teacher and
Teacher Assistant (2) principals spending a maximum portion of the day working with students in $9.00 Hourly
academic areas.
Ensures high standards of food production, financial control, nutrition, and
Food Service (1) nutrition education and student services in cooperation with principal and $9.00 Hourly
state guidelines.
Janitor (1) To perform maintenance and janitor duties. $8.00 Hourly
Parental involvement and support the professional services to help ensure
Volunteers each child receives the education that will lead them to a healthy and N/A
fulfilling life.
Five Step Training Process and Type of Training
1. Analyze the training need – The employees of Villa Rica Head Start/CAFI was the
first to recognize the need for additional training. Due the changes in the state
educational requirement and technological changes.
2. Design the overall training program – An informal training is selected to provide
the necessary upgrading or advanced training.
3. Develop the course – An organizational assessment need to give to all employees
to decide the particular training needed to meet the objective limiting the cost
for the training. CAFI organization does offer individualize paid formal training
when needed to each employee.
Five Step Training Process and Type of Training
1. Implement training, by actually training the targeted employee group using methods such
as on-the-job or online training – Online instructional method can provides quality
training opportunities at a relatively low cost or no cost at all and reducing training
time. The select online sites of focus on step by step and self-learning methods to
program learning.
• Presenting questions, facts, or problems to the employee
• Allowing the employee to respond
• Providing feedback on the accuracy of the answers and what’s to follow next.

2. Evaluate the course’s effectiveness – Measuring the training outcome had to be given to
the employees by evaluation the training including that of getting the employees’
reaction on the training program, assess the employees on what they have learned and
the achieving results from the programed training.
Annotations
Villa Rica Head Start/CAFI employees are more than just co-
workers; they are a team. The entire staff are an assets, and are
recognized by their ability to provide quality help and services for
the community with the assistance of each and every one of their
employees.
The organization pursued suitably qualified consultants to aid
employees in contributing to the achievement of department
goals and the agency’s mission and vision.
Recourses
Community Action for Improvement. Community Action for Improvement, Inc. n.d.
Web. 1 April 2015. <http://www.cafi-ga.org/index.html>.
Dessler, Gary. Human Resource Management. 13. Upper Saddle Rive: Prentice Hall,
2013. Chapter Book