Well, I grew up in Colorado. There’s 10 children, and I'm the fifth one of them, so I’ve always been around kids because we took care of siblings. I met my husband in Colorado, and we got married and moved to California. I have two...
“I found out about OACAC through a friend that I was working with at another center, not with OACAC, she had moved here and so I followed her. I came here and it felt like a team, like a home. It felt huge, like a...
“I’ll just start at the beginning, I was born in Dothan, Alabama. I’m a military brat and moved all over the world. We moved here from the Canal Zone in ’74 and I’ve been here ever since. Back in the middle 70’s I was a...
“They told me out of all 10 county areas and Central Office I’ve been here longer than anybody! I am proud and I’ve loved Head Start, we’ve gone through so many changes through the years, there’s been lots of improvement, it always seems to be...
"In 2002 my daughter went to the Head Start here with Joy Rothdiener, Penni Cole, and Jody McCrickard. Then the 2nd year when she went to Kindergarten they asked me if I wanted to sub and I started in the kitchen. When the new year...
I worked for Head Start 8 years ago for about a year and a half and I loved it, but it was too much with my 3 boys at home. I wanted to be closer to them, so I moved to a job in our...
I wake up every day and choose Head Start because someone woke up every day and chose the same for me. I started in early childhood at Little Sunshine’s, but I said ok I’m going to go to Head Start because that’s where it started...