Shared decision-making in planning is required in the Head Start Program Performance Standards. Shared decision making is an essential element in all Head Start programs and must be consistently practiced.
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with 75 children in 1965, RCMA today serves nearly 8,000 children of migrant farm workers and rural, low-income families in more than 75 centers throughout Florida.
Children in our centers range from 6 weeks to 12 years old. RCMA's inclusion of children with disabilities, beginning with infants and toddlers, has been recognized as a model within Florida.
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Impoverished farmworkers in South Florida had no alternative but to take their young children into the fields. A toddler had drowned in an irrigation pit. Others had died under farm machinery. Most spent long days exposed to broiling sun, pesticides, insects and snakes.
So a village of Mennonites near Homestead’s Redlands labor camp created a safe haven. They opened two child care centers.