1. MARATHON COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, INC.
720 Grant Street • Wausau, WI 54403 • 715-845-2947 • www.mccdahs.org
OUR MISSION:
To make a positive difference in the lives of the
children and families we serve. PROGRAM INFORMATION
In striving to achieve our mission, we will: Marathon County Child Development Agency Inc.
• Provide a safe, secure, and nurturing Head Start (MCCDA) is a state and federally funded program
learning environment in operation since 1966. MCCDA’s purpose has always been to recruit low
• Create partnerships with families and income children and their families who are at significant risk of later problems in
community resource agencies school and in life and to ensure that these children go to school ready to learn, and
• Recruit, develop and maintain a staff have a high likelihood of success in life and school. The Board of Directors and
that is dedicated to promoting staff are committed to helping low-income preschool aged children, their families,
excellence
and communities overcome the effects of poverty. Our center-based model
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Officers & Directors provides each child with an appropriate learning environment led by licensed
President • Kathleen Czech preschool teachers. The centers expose children to varied experiences which
Vice President • Peter Rotter stimulate each child’s social, intellectual, physical, and emotional growth and
Sec’t/Treasurer • Mary Litzenberger development. In addition to providing educational services to children and their
Nell Anderson Renee Scheel parents, MCCDA Head Start also strives to strengthen families and the
Ron Lippi, Ph.D. Sandy Suprak communities they reside within by providing or linking families to local
Marcy Rau Ngee Xiong resources. These include resources for health, dental and nutritional services,
social services, mental health services, services for children with disabilities, and
POLICY COUNCIL
opportunities for parent governance and involvement.
President • Amy Jaeger
Vice President • Angela Bordeau
Secretary • Kate Kipp PARENT AND FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS
Treasurer • Tami Enquist Towards the goal of establishing partnerships with the parents and
Stacy Lopez Jennifer Bierman families we serve as part of our process of preparing children for kindergarten,
Josh Lopez Bill Moffat Michelle Steffers our Head Start program staff create a climate of mutual respect through their
genuine acceptance of each family with their own strengths and needs for support.
Executive Director Staff members seek to promote and sustain a supportive partnership with the goal
Catherine E. Howe Thwaits of strengthening the family in order to ensure the healthy development and well-
being of their children. The staff and families build reciprocal relationships in
which staff members work WITH the families, not FOR the families to build on
their individual family strengths and overcome their challenges. Key strategies
our program uses to help establish and maintain good relationships with children's
parents and families include using caring, open and positive communication and
assuring that as early childhood professionals, our program wants to be a partner
in providing the best possible experience and opportunities for their child. Our
Head Start program believes every parent wants the best for their children. Our
program staff listens objectively without criticizing or judging as they accept and
respect each family as unique and individual with strengths and challenges. The
Head Start program allows the family to make their own decisions and choices
while providing information, resources and options to support the process.
HEAD START PROGRAM CENTERS: Members of our program staff respect and accept each family's decisions whether
Barrington Center they personally agree with the decisions or not.
616 Grant Street • Wausau • 715-848-0716
Center Director • Terese Baier
Stoddard Center
5200 Camp Philips Rd • Schofield • 715-573-3698
Center Director • Sue VanderLoop
Mosinee Center
607 13th Street • Mosinee • 715-693-4003
Center Director • Sandy Stolze

2. FINANCIAL REPORTS
April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011
We received funding during this fiscal year from the federal government to serve 199 Head Start
children from April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011. Federal USDA funds, through the State of
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, provided funding for our child nutrition program
providing healthy breakfast, lunch, and snacks. The State of Wisconsin funded 9 additional Head
Start children with a Head Start Supplemental Funding grant. We also received funds through the
Wausau and Mosinee School District 4K contracts with our agency.
Revenues (**Audited) Budget
04/01/10—03/31/11 04/01/11 –
03/31/12
Federal Head $1,416,585 $1,422,824
Start Grant
Wausau School $203,496 $168,313
District 4K Contract
Mosinee School $19,800 $19,300
District 4K Contract
USDA Child $111,888 $112,000
Nutrition
ARRA COLA $6,977 $0
WI State Head Start $51,975 $46,200
Supplemental
Other $100 $0
In-Kind $355,067 $361,306
Contributions
Total Revenues $2,165,888 $2,129,943
**Figures in the above charts are audited totals from Hawkins, Ash, Baptie, & Company, LLP; Certified Public Accountants
16%
16% 4%
2010-11 INCOME 6% 2010-11 EXPENSES
0%
3%
5% Salaries
5% Fed'l HS 0% Fringe
WSD 4K Occupancy
1%
MSD 4K Travel
10% USDA 6% Supplies
65% WI DPI 46% Contract
Other Other
In-Kind 17% In-Kind
Results of Outside Review and Audits:
This fiscal year’s audit, by Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Company, LLP indicated:
• Agency managed federal, state, local, private funds well.
• The results of tests disclosed no instance of noncompliance or other matters that are required to be
reported under Government Auditing Standards
• Marathon County Child Development Agency, Inc. complied, in all material respects, with the
requirements applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards; OMB
Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Government, and Non-Profit Organizations, and State Single
Audit Guidelines issued by the Wisconsin Department of Administration and applicable to its major
federal and state programs for the year ended March 31, 2011.
Our most recent federal onsite triennial review was conducted in April of 2010 under the auspice of
the Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Head Start. Our Head Start program meets
both Federal DHHS Standards and State of WI Child Care Licensing Regulations and thus has a high
level of accountability and integrity. The program has a full federal review every three years, a state
licensing renewal review every other year and self-assesses every year. The program is dedicated to
continue to evaluate and improve programming and delivery of services to ensure a dynamic and
high quality approach to meeting the needs of the most at-risk of Marathon County’s preschool
children.

3. Head Start 2010-11
Program Enrollment by the Numbers:
Total Enrollment: 241 Total Funded: 208 Average Monthly Enrollment: 100%
Average Daily Attendance: 89%
Of the Children Enrolled: SSI, 19
3 yrs, 4 yrs, Foster
115 119 Enrollment with Disability: Child, 1
• 13.69% enrolled with IEP Hom eless
• 3% IEP for Visual Impairment 1
• 6% IEP for Developmental Delay
• 91% IEP for Speech/language Over
Income Incom e, 5
2 yrs, 5 yrs, Caucasian, Eligible
5 2 133 215
By: ELIGIBILITY
By:AGE
Hmong, 74
Enrollment by Ethnicity:
• 86% Non-Hispanic origin
• 14% Hispanic origin Native American, 2
Bi-racial, 22
Enrollment by Primary Language:
• 67% English
Black, 10
• 26% Hmong
• 7% Spanish
Percentage of Potential Eligible
Children in Community Served: By: RACE
• Wausau School District – approx. 29% served
• DCE School District – approx. 29% served
• Mosinee School District – approx. 41% served
Of the Children Enrolled:
• 100% had health insurance (at end of year)
• 100% had a medical home (at end of year)
• 100% were up-to-date with immunizations
• 85% were up-to-date with health services
• 98% had a dental home
• 93% had a dental exam in the last year
• 23% needed professional dental treatment
• 96% received needed dental treatment
• 5% needed mental health referral
• 62% received needed mental health services
Total enrollment of families: 218
Family structure
• 50% are single-parent families
• 50% are two-parent families
Services
• 55% needed emergency/crisis intervention
• 87% received at least 1 referral or family
service (housing, food resources, medical
referral, parenting education)

4. • 77% received parenting education Unfortunately we could not serve all who
• 20% received mental health services requested programming!
• 5% families experienced homelessness Children are admitted based on need on a prioritized
• 28% received adult education services scale. We ended the 2010-2011 program year with 80
• 57% provided volunteer services to program children on our Head Start waiting list.

5. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2010-11
Perceptions of the Collaborating Partners of MCCDA – Head Start Program
Twenty-three (23) of our community partners in Marathon County were asked to rate their perception of the
current health and human services system in the community in Spring of 2011. Due to the large number of
perceptions, each perception-specific score was averaged. Rating scale is as follows:
6=Always 5= Usually 4= Sometimes 3= Rarely 2= Never 1= Don’t know
Perceptions Average
Children and families receive adequate services as needed 4.30
Programs reach all children and families who need them 3.78
Services are easily accessible to families 4.43
Services for children and families are well coordinated 4.00
Agencies share information and resources 4.17
Referrals are shared between agencies 4.17
Interagency meetings occur 4.04
There is joint planning among agencies 3.80
There is problem solving among agencies to fill gaps in services 3.91
Agencies make children and families a very high priority 4.78
Agencies are in conflict with one another 3.00
Agencies have conflicting rules and eligibility requirements 3.00
Duplication of services is a problem 2.96
Children and families face barriers to obtaining services 3.48
Providers have adequate information about policy and program changes 3.39
The perception of the health and social services system yielded some reassuring findings. Agencies make
children and families a high priority, services are easily accessible, and children and families Staff Members
Longevity of receive adequate
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services as needed in Marathon County. Furthermore, negative perceptions had a lower average score. These
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included the notion that duplication of services is a problem, agencies are in conflict with one another, and
agencies have conflicting rules and eligibility requirements.
We are grateful for and thank the many community Part Tim e
partners who support our program….we could not provide 6 6 Full Tim e
high quality services without them!
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MCCDA Staff Fast Facts 0 0

6. During the 2010-2011 program year, MCCDA’s
Head Start Program employed 45 full and part time
staff members. Ten (22%) of these staff members
were either current or past Head Start parents and
seven (16%) of these staff members were proficient
in a language other than English. All of our lead
teachers have a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood
Education (ECE). Our assistant teachers are enrolled in
an Associate’s Degree program in ECE.
Congratulations
to our Staff Members on Achieving these Anniversary Milestones in 2010-11:
5 Years of Service Lourdes Alvarez Kao Her
Karla Edelburg 10 Years of Service Heidi Ernst
Choua Lor