preschool teacher

instructional assistant

assistant

bus driver

family advocate

Oregon Child Development Coalition, Inc.

This job is great at first because they do offer you ways to grow professionally and will help pay for you to continue schooling. However, the job itself can be very stressful and overwhelming. The workload is a lot for not much pay compared to other companies. The turnover rate is very high due to so many staff members feeling unappreciated. You will receive many children with challenging behaviors but not get the staff support you need to assist and run a classroom smoothly. You often get asked to support in other classrooms due to staff shortages. I also felt very replaceable at this job.. all the hard work my team and I did was never sincerely acknowledged. And they hardly did anything to show appreciation for staff members. Good place to gain some experience, but overtime it will run you down. 

Upon arrival to my job site, I review open items to be completed.  I have increased my skills with budgets.  At the present time, we are without 3 major management positions: Director, Family and Health Supervisor, and out Outreach/Community Supervisor.  My co-workers are dedicated employees, always striving to be ahead of their tasks.  The hardest part of my job is receiving payroll information in a timely manner in order to complete my payroll duties. The most enjoyable part of my job is watching all of the infants and toddlers grow to be preschoolers, then watching the preschoolers transition into kindergarten.

I love working here. We provide Head Start services for families that work in agriculture. I spend my work day with happy children, committed families, dedicated teachers, and outstanding managers. My supervisor is supportive, understanding, professional, and committed. Like most non-profits, we struggle with competitive salaries. However, job satisfaction and a mission I believe in make it a dream job. I make that statement through the lens of someone who worked for twenty-seven years in k-12 public education.

I adore Head Start and everything they stand for and the model that they provide for early childhood education. However, Head Start sometimes pushes to serve as many children as possible, with the staff that they have, often putting a ton of weight and pressure on the staff. A more sustainable model would be to use the staff that they do have, serve less children but provide higher quality services. Staff would stay and by word of mouth about improved conditions, they may be able to recruit more people. They don’t do this though so they constantly see high turnover rates and dissatisfaction from employees. The way of thinking is really backwards and costs the organization a lot of money overall. 

We not only cooked for kids but also parents on parent nights held once a month this was gratifying to see your efforts enjoyed by the parents and staff. This was a very fast paced environment where problems had to be fixed now or adjustments had to be made with little or no notice but we handled it well. The hardest part of the job was dealing with issues created my others that sometimes would short fuse the system but even that we would handle. The
 management staff was sometimes people who never managed people this was sometimes hard to work with, but we always managed to work thru it.

I liked working at OCDC, and if the Head Start Program ran year-round, I would have stayed on. As it is, they laid staff off every year for several months at a time, and it was difficult constantly having to find new employment to hold me over until they started back up again. It was a seasonal job at the time. The wages were okay, benefits/insurance were okay, but nothing spectacular. 
Soon after I quit to attend school, they went full-time, year-round. Story of my life!

A typical day for me was 7:30 to 3:30
OCDC taught me how to be a team player and except that we all are different but in the end we all seek equality
Management lacks communication and the realization of building on others strengths when they are lacking in a certain area
Most co-workers were friendly and supportive of one another
There is always the unhappy
The hardest part of my job was the language barrier
The most enjoyable part of my job was seeing those happy faces each morning as the children bonded with you and then watching their personal success

I loved working here it was a head start  I learned to speak Spanish and more about the Spanish culture. it was very rewarding to work with different teachers and staff . I worked with children ranging in age from 0-5 years old and they all had something to teach me. I was impressed that the school went to great lengths to make sure the children and staff were always safe and cared for in the best way possible.  I was required to have a food handlers card and  a First Aid/CPR card . this job was my favorite job I have ever had

Executive leadership is out of touch with the needs of the counties.  Selective advancement. Managers are overworked and under compensated. Managers are often asked to work outside of job description without compensation. Lack of respect from the Executive leadership. Lots of drama among the staff. The Mission on paper looks good, sadly it is often the last focus on any given day.  Five Managers left in a few months period in 2019... very reflective of a toxic work environment. Very little support from Executive leadership in Wilsonville.  Our families and children, Grantors, and tax payers deserve better.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some of the people, working together as a team

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of communication and direction from leadership 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Somewhat clicky. Poor collaboration with different departments especially at the central office management teams. CO not focused on the needs of staff and children more focused on slots and putting more kids into a class

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Independent no set direction.

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