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(2) Illness Reporting/ABC-B Wants Bottle Tops/TFC

(3) Promotions!

(4) March Birthdays!

(5) March Anniversaries!

(6) Red Day @ PXT-TAL, MS Teams

(7) Free Tax Prep!

Mission Statement Southern Oregon Head Start prepares all children and their families for success in school and throughout life.

Meetings and Trainings March 9 —Monday

Parenting Ed Series-Spring Option

Begins

9:00-9:30 Fiscal Team Mtg, Fiscal

9:00-10:30 Reflective Cohort Admin

1:00-3:00 Department Mgr Mtg,

Blue Conf Rm

March 10 —Tuesday

8:00-5:00 NEO, Blue Conf Rm

4:45-6:00 Health Smarts @ FTL

March 11 —Wednesday

8:00-5:00 NEO, Blue Conf Rm

12:30-3:30 Directors Mtg, Admin

5:00-6:00 Board Exec Cmte, Library

5:00-6:15 Health Smarts @ PKV

March 12 —Thursday

8:00-5:00 NEO, Blue Conf Rm

9:00-12:00 PFCE Dept Mtg, PFCE

Office

9:00-3:00 PFCE Content Trng,

Admin

1:00-2:30 Health Dept Mtg, Library

1:00-4:00 EHS Mgr Mtg, Admin

5:30-7:00 Program Plng, Admin

March 13 —Friday

Make Up Day

8:00-5:00 NEO, Blue Conf Rm

8:00-10:00 EHS/HS ED Planning @

Cntrs

9:00-10:30 EHS WM/GPHS DUR @

Cntrs

10:30-12:00 EHS Assmnt/Curric.

Mtg, Admin

1:00-3:30 Labor Mgmt Cmte,

Library

March 16 —Monday

9:00-9:30 Fiscal Team Mtg, Fiscal

3:00-4:00 TLC w/Crystal & Nichole,

Admin

March 17 —Tuesday

9:00-10:30 AA Training, Blue Conf

5:30-8:30 Policy Council, Jax Co

March 18 —Wednesday

8:30-12:30 New FA Cohort, Library

9:00-10:30 Reflective Sup Group,

Admin

9:00-1:00 Ed Dept Mtg, Blue Conf

12:30-3:30 Directors Ctr Support

1:00-2:00 Ed Dept RS, Blue Conf Rm

1:00-2:30 Type 10 Van Trng, Library

4:00-7:00 Listo Staff Trng, Blue Conf

March 19 —Thursday

9:00-9:30 MO Safety Mtg, Blue Conf

9:00-12:00 PFCE Dept Mtg, PFCE

10:00-12:00 Mary Foltz, Admin

10:30-12:00 CORE, Blue Conf Rm

11:00-12:00 Health/PFCE, PFCE

1:00-2:30 Health Dept Mtg, Library

1:00-3:00 Site Mgr Cohort, RR

Abby’s

2:30-3:00 Health/SAA Blue Conf Rm

5:45-7:45 BOD, Blue Conf Rm

March 20 —Friday

Child Guidance/MH Updates,

Family Surveys, Goal Tracking,

Guidance Plans Due

8:00-10:00 EHS/HS ED Planning @

Cntrs

9:00-11:30 FS Mtg, All Cooks,FTL

10:15-12:15 EHS/HS Ctr Mtgs

1:00-2:30 TLC w/Casey/Abby, TBD

Weekly Memo Submissions Please send your PDFs, jpegs, and text to Nancy

Helms or Ashley Clayton by Wednesdays @ 12 pm. This reminder on the importance of self-care is from Lisa Farlin, our HS

Director

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Don't forget to report diagnosed illnesses

With all the talk about illness in the news, I wanted to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our Illness Reporting Procedures.

The goal of this policy is to enable all children to participate as healthy individuals. We follow the Center for Disease Control and our local Health Department guidelines on what diagnosed contagious conditions require exclusion from school and also for which contagious conditions require posting and notification. The goal of these postings and notifications is to let families know about symptoms of contagious illnesses early for families to seek care. Our goal is to have kids in class that are well enough to participate, again following CDC and public health guidance on when children should stay home.

REMEMBER: If a child in a class is diagnosed with a communicable disease the center staff needs to notify our Health Services department and your site manager right away. We must post for the diagnosed illness within 24 hours of learning of it. Health will provide those postings for each diagnosis. We need you to notify Health Services of all diagnosis for our tracking needs. If a second child in the same class is diagnosed with the same illness as another child, Health needs to be notified again and we will initiate that you send out a copy of the Illness letter to each family in that class, in addition to having it posted at the center. You should email the Health Supervisor that covers your center as well as the Health Director.

Staff Illness: diagnosed contagious conditions for staff need to be reported to the staff person’s supervisor who will let HR know. HR will determine if any additional measures are taken.

You can also refer to our Policy “Illness and Injury: Short -Term Medical Exclusion and Long-Term Medical Accommodation”

Sarah Forga

Health & Nutrition Services Director

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https://thefamilyconnect.org/

events-calendar/ DBennington@socfc.org; BGrace@socfc.org

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Right: Tricia Krois, promoted from

Classroom Aide I to Teacher

Assistant

Left: Ian Larson, promoted from

Cook Assistant to Cook

Right: Raquel Rodriguez,

reclassified from Service Area

Assistant to Lead Receptionist

Left: Amanda Ward, promoted

from EHS Specialist I to EHS

Education Supervisor

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Regina Beeler, Family Advocate-OH

Pamela Biegler, Teacher -CP-AM-02

Gina Bouck, Classroom Aide I-RVS-

02

Christina Buttram ,Center Assistant-

LB

Katherine Clayton, Executive

Director-MO

Amber Dawson, Family Advocate-IV

Marta Diaz, Cook Assistant-FH

Reyna Dominguez, Listo Teacher

Hilario Graciano, EHS Teacher II,

WM-TOD-AM/PM

Catherine Hall, Health Supervisor-

MO

Sallie Hicks, Area Assistant-EHS ABC

& EHS WM

Erynn Hoie, Site Manager-ASH, PXT

Michael Jay, Operations Director-

MO

Jean Lehmann, Executive

Administrative Assistant-MO

Marlinda Lucas, Area Assistant-MER

& RVS

Jared McLean, Dishwasher-PV

Jan Mullen, Center Assistant-ABC-02

Jennifer O'Daniel, Teacher, CP-PM-

02

Donna Parker, Center Assistant-PXT-

DUR

Samantha Rollings-Young, Teacher

Assistant -RR

Pramila Stevens, Center Assistant-

RR

Doris Tautolu, Head Teacher-WC-

DUR-02

Tiffany Welch, Center Assistant -

Multi-Site

MARCH BIRTHDAYS!!

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Work Anniversaries!

Makaila Carpenter, Teacher Assistant-MER 1 Year

Patricia Grahn, EHS Teacher II-GP-IYT-DUR 1 Year

Maria Liberto, Center Assistant-WIL 1 Year

Samantha Rollings-Young, Teacher Assistant-RR 1 Year

Raquel Sanchez, Classroom Aide I-RVS-01 1 Year

Robin Sweetser, EHS Specialist I-GP-OT-PM 1 Year

Nicole Temple, Head Teacher, PRG-DUR-03 1 Year

James Allen, Classroom Aide I-EP-01 2 Years

Eunices Ayala Velasco, Listo Parent Coordinator 2 Years

Jami Burk, Teacher Assistant-SM-AM-02 2 Years

Angela Choisnet, Teacher-RWD-AM 2 Years

Monique Rodgers, Cook Assistant-RWD 2 Years

Melaney Hays, Teacher-ABC-PM-04 3 Years

Jessica Marsh, Family Advocate-EHS-PRG 3 Years

Wendy Neill, EHS Teacher II-GPHS-Combo 3 Years

Kelly Pintarelli, PFCE Supervisor-MO 3 Years

Ashley Jasper, Human Resources Coordinator-MO 4 Years

A J Salazar, Center Sweeper-EHS ABC 4 Years

Reyna Dominguez, LISTO Teacher 5 Years

Karen Lowrey, Service Area Assistant-Education-MO 5 Years

Pramila Stevens, Center Assistant-RR 7 Years

Lisa Settle, Teacher Assistant-EP-AM-01 16 Years

Jeanie Mentzer, EHS Specialist I-WM-TOD-AM-02 19 Years

Candi Staten, Teacher Assistant-RVS-PM-01 21 Years

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On February 13th, the Phoenix/Talent AM class had a “Red Day” to celebrate friendship! Many thanks to

Virginia Grimes, Teacher; and Margarita Leon, TA. (Note: We do not have parental permission to show the

faces of two children, so their identities are being protected).

Microsoft Teams

If you've been using Office 365 from the website, you might have noticed one of the links on your dashboard is for Microsoft Teams. This is what has effectively replaced the Skype for Business software we had been using in the past, and it bears more than a passing resemblance to Discord - another popular piece of communications software used all over the world today. With Teams, you can keep in touch with entire groups of staff such as the people you work with at a center. You can also schedule and attend meetings, or just leave a message for a person or group. The program is very flexible, and while I'm only learning it myself, I'm immediately seeing the value in it. Instant messaging, file sharing, meetings - Teams will allow you to keep in touch with important people and stay informed as things happen in your center or work group. Since it's integrated into Office 365, it can also be used anywhere.

I've found a number of tutorials and videos you all can use to get up to speed:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/microsoft-teams-video-training-4f108e54-240b-4351-8084-b1089f0d21d7

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/enduser-training

I'd strongly recommend you all take a look at these videos and quickstart guides - it's likely use of Teams will be increasing in the agency, so you'll want to start learning it just like I am.

Jordan Roberts

IT Supervisor

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This free tax service is for ALL age groups and you don’t have to be a member of

AARP. Please check the days and times at the following locations:

Ascension Lutheran Church, 675 Black Oak Drive, Medford, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Fridays; closed March 1;

Medford Senior Center, 510 E. Main St., Medford, by appointment only, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays;

Rogue Valley Mall, 1600 N. Riverside Ave., upper level near JC Penney, Medford, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays;

Rogue Family Center, 3131 Ave. C, White City, from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays;

Phoenix library, 510 W. First St., Phoenix, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays; closed Feb. 5;

Talent library, 101 Home St., Talent, from noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays; closed Feb. 7;

The Grove, 1195 E. Main St., Ashland, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays;

Upper Rogue Community Center, 22465 Highway 62, Shady Cove, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays