Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council Inc

Head start program:provides learning environments that assist children to develop socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically in a manor appropriate in age and staff development. Provides an individual approach by assessing each child's development level and aligning a curriculum plan and progress monitoring system that will maximize school readiness success. Engages in mutually respectful goal-oriented partnerships with families to promote parent-child relationships and well-being. Provides a comprehensive health program that promotes prevention, early identification and intervention and referral services. Facilitates networks and community partnerships that support families' strengths, interests and needs. Collects and analyzes outcome data to implement plans that reflect the desire for continuous improvement through professional development and program planning and evaluation. Results and key benefits from 2023-24: western egyptian eoc head start program provides comprehensive services to preschool children and families with low-income. The program is designed to service the tri-county areas of monroe, randolph and perry counties in illinois with funding from the united states department of health and human services. The head start program participates in the united states department of agriculture (usda) child and adult care food program. Children in full-time preschool are served breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. We have 3 centers and 2 partnerships that children attend august june. There were 100 children in full day, full year. There are 4 classrooms that are full-day, part-year. These classrooms are operated 148 days in the service year. The 3 part-year, part-day classrooms provide traditional early childhood setting with classrooms in 2 head start locations funded to serve 54 children. The part-year centers are operated 128 days in the service year. Door to-door bus transportation is provided for all children in the part-year program option.

During program year 2025, weeoc's weatherization program has finalized 15 homes with 4 more homes completed but not yet finalized. The program has until september 30th to finalize those homes. The following statistics include all nineteen homes. When combining doe, doe/ready and doe/bil funding, we have spent $115,473 exhausting 28.3% of the federal doe funding received. The program has spent $141,050 of hhs funding (54.3%) and $71,056 (58.1%) of state funding. Working with the state's new iwx program, programming for a complete cycle was not in place until late november 2024 (with many help desk tickets created). We were not able to give work orders to contractors until december 2024. The funding dollars are actually representing only 6 months of the fiscal year 2025. There will be $118,809 hhs funding leftover for carryover and $51,318 state funding leftover for carryover. We will most likely not be able to spend that carryover funding as things are not working properly with the state's iwx program at this moment.

Senior programs:provided nutrition, transportation, referral and health services for individuals over 60 years old, which approximately 1,098 seniors were served. Programs operated through the nutrition sites have been steadily increased since the pandemic has ended.