Greetings Fellow Directors;
I first would like to extend a very Merry, Happy and safe Holiday Season to you, your staff and all the children and parents you serve. This is a very stressful time in a lot of families’ homes but is really intended to be a time of reflection and a time to be thankful for the many blessings the Creator has given us in this life. I hope we all can take a little time to do that.
I hope to see a lot of you at the Head Start Performance Standards “Orientation” in Phoenix in December, this is a great opportunity to conference and get to know each other a little more and also share our challenges and successes. This is also an awesome opportunity to share dialogue with the Office of Head Start, Region XI AIAN and the T&TA Providers, I hope you all take the time to speak with them on issues and concerns that you’re experiencing.
The NIHSDA Conference is just around the corner (June) and soon we’ll be getting together in Denver, Colorado. We are currently soliciting ideas on topics that we could possibly present on at the conference, if you have some thoughts or ideas please send them to Kristi & Teri. I’m excited that for the first time we’ll be having a track that’s geared towards front line teaching staff and therefore an opportunity to send some of them to the conference also. The chance to advance their view and understanding of our organization as well as Head Start/Early Head Start at another level is an exciting thought, who knows they may be the leader of your program in the future.
I’d also like to congratulate Ms. Tina Routh from the Upper Band of Mississippi Choctaw with her election as our new President-Elect. Tina has a great spirit and will serve us all very well.
In closing I want to thank you and your staff for all that you do each day for our children and families out here in Indian Country. Keep up the much needed effort and good things will come from it.
Giigawabomin Minawaa
Lee Turney
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