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A N N U A L R E P O R T

2016-2017

Taking Care of Cape Cod’s Children & Families

M I S S I O N &VA L U E S

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Cape Cod Child Development Program is committed to helping children and families thrive

through a deep understanding of their individual strengths and challenges.

O U R M I S S I O N :

To provide world-class child and family focused

programs that nurture each child’s full potential.

EARLY INTERVENTION

EI is a program for infants and toddlers (birth to 3 years

old) who have developmental delays or are at risk for a

developmental delay. EI services are designed to help

support families and caregivers, and to enhance the

development and learning of infants and toddlers through

individualized, developmentally appropriate activities within

the child’s and family’s everyday life experiences.

PRESCHOOL & HEAD START

CCCDP is the regional leader in comprehensive Early

Childhood and Child Care Programs for children ages 2.9

to 5 years old. The program offers services to both the child

and the family, providing not only a quality early childhood

educational experience, but also services that look at the

child’s health and dental needs, nutritional needs, and

special educational needs. The program further supports the

family through social and mental health services.

FAMILY CHILD CARE PROGRAM

FCC provides professional childcare services, serving infant

through school-age children in small group home settings

through contracts with 33 state licensed providers. We offer

family child care in 19 communities, the majority are located

in the Upper and Mid-Cape regions. A program team

member visits every provider monthly allowing for ongoing

oversight of children’s care and provider support and

education. Our parent liaison assists families with enrollment,

resource availability and program transitions. Family child

care provides an important option for parents who want to

keep their child in a warm and caring homelike environment

with continuity and consistency of a single caregiver.

SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE

After School and Summer Programs for children ages 5 to 12

years old. Each year Cape Cod Child Development’s School

Age program provides caring and expansive after school

and summer child care to over 145 children, kindergarten to

grade 6, in safe, nurturing and constructive environments at

our three centers in West Yarmouth, Falmouth and Hyannis.

MID-CAPE COORDINATED FAMILY & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (CFCE)/FAMILIES UNITED NETWORK:

Parent education and family support program for families

with children birth through age eight, in Barnstable, Dennis,

and Yarmouth. The program supports healthy parenting

practices for families through parent/child play and learn

groups, parent support groups, and family workshops.

TEEN PARENT PROGRAM

The Teen Parent program works with pregnant and parenting

teens through age 19, providing parenting education,

counseling, support, resource referrals and child care.

Because becoming a parent as a teenager has many

challenges and can at times feel overwhelming, the Teen

Parent Program can help during this important time in the

life of the child and family.

P R O G R A M SCape Cod Child Development is the largest provider of quality childcare, early education, developmental

intervention and family support service programs on Cape Cod, the Islands and Wareham.

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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO:

Dear Friends of Cape Cod Child Development,

Today’s families face many challenges. At Cape Cod Child Development

we think that finding great child care, early education and family support

services shouldn’t be among them. Through our core offerings, we offer a

broad range of comprehensive services that include preschool/head start;

and school-age programs; early intervention and assessment services;

parent education and playgroups for children; support for teen parents

and a network of family child care homes. Cape Cod Child Development is the largest provider of

quality childcare, early education, developmental intervention and family support services on Cape

Cod, the Islands and Wareham.

Fiscal Year 2017 saw wonderful community collaborations, significant capacity building, facilities’

challenges and improvements and, as always, meaningful connections with our clients. I am happy

to share with you here snapshots of our successes this past year, along with a vision for years to

come. I know that our future will continue to focus on ways to ensure sustainability of current

programs, explore steps we can take to serve more children and families, and to fulfill unmet needs

as they relate to our mission in impactful and innovative ways.

Sincerely,

Anne B. Colwell,

Chief Executive Officer

M E S S A G E S

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT:

“Over the past eight years, I have had the pleasure of watching Cape Cod Child

Development Program truly raise the bar, both for ourselves as an organization and

for our community. I applaud the efforts of the entire staff and I am inspired by their

enthusiasm and dedication to providing world class child and family focused programs.

I am both proud of what Cape Cod Child Development has accomplished this past

year and exhilarated about our future. We are committed to continuing the very best in

child development programming and we are excited to have you on our team.”

B O A R D O F

D I R E C T O R S :

Matthew Bresette, Board President

Christine Johnson-Staub,

Vice Chair of Board, Secretary

Sheryl Walsh, Treasurer

T. Berry Brazelton

Dave Chase

Sally Fogerty

Tammy Glivinski

Sharon Hawkins

Marissa Noble

William Pane

Michael Pierce

Matthew Quitmeyer

Robert Rice

Matthew Bresette





Notable Achievements in 2016: 1. The Department of Health’s Family Survey indicated

that 92.3% of families feel that EI services helped

their children develop and learn.

2. Our Early Intervention staff was able to engage 87.5%

of families admitted into Cape Cod Hospital through

in-person visits and explain the EI services available to

all families and the benefits to their children of those

services.

3. Through a collaboration with Cape Cod Healthcare, EI

staff addressed the developmental needs of Neonatal

Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and SEN infants’ needs

by meeting with new mothers affected by substance

abuse and encouraging participation in Early

Intervention services.

4. EI’s participation in the 2016 Holiday Project

was a great success. Families with a child with a

developmental disability who are struggling to make

ends meet were helped with donations of clothing,

toys and books from Broad Reach Healthcare, Liberty

Commons of North Chatham, Toys for Tots Cape

Cod and Eight Cousins Book Store of Falmouth. Early

Intervention Staff volunteered to pick up, organize,

and prepare all the items for delivery in time for

the holidays. In total, we received over $13,000 in

clothing, toy and book donations that we were able to

share with some of our neediest families.

Statistics: In 2016, we received 1,049 referrals into our Early

Intervention program. A total of 795 children were

eligible for and received services.

E A R LY I N T E R V E N T I O N

100% COMPLIANCE

According to the Department

of Health for Fiscal Year 2017,

Cape Cod Child Development

has achieved 100% compliance

in both providing services in

a timely fashion as well as in

assisting families through the

transition process from Early

Intervention to the Preschool

programs. This accomplishment

is credited to our committed

and competent agency.

“I am a foster parent for the Department

of Children and Families on Cape Cod

who fosters children under the age of 5,

including infants born addicted to drugs

coming from the hospital to me after

withdrawing from various substances.

As soon as the child comes into my

home, I call CCCDP’s Early Intervention

for an evaluation. They come every week

providing the most valuable services for

these children and are dedicated, caring

and extremely successful in providing

development support to a population of

children that deserve these services.

Last year I fostered a boy named James

who arrived to me at 6 months old in a

state of severe neglect. He had been left

on the floor of his house, in deplorable

conditions, with a minimum of care,

barely any clothes and not having had

a bath for over a month. Having had

no real attention given to him, he was

devoid of any emotional response, but

played quietly on his own with any object

given to him.

He was evaluated by the EI team and

they found he had no muscle tone and

was not making eye contact. Donna

G., an incredible EI professional, came

every week – spending at least two hours

each visit – helping James overcome his

rough start in life. She and her amazing

coworker also taught us how to work

with him to help him learn the things he

so readily wanted to learn. After many

months of exercises, games, toys, care

and love, James began to bloom. He

smiled and learned what they taught and

soaked up the attention and love they

gave him. He became a happy, well-

adjusted 15 month old who now loves

Mickey Mouse. He learned to crawl then

began to walk. He was adopted by a

loving family and is thriving.

I believe none of this would have been

possible without the incredible work from

CCCDP’s Early Intervention team.

I have nothing but wonderful things

to say about the professionals there.

They are the most important tool in my

toolbox to support my foster children.

Cape Cod Child Development should

be the model for all communities

throughout the state.”

Kate Bruster, West Yarmouth

EI STORY

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Notable Achievements in 2016: 1. Cape Cod Child Development Program’s Preschool and

Head Start programs had a restructuring of management

staff to allow for Center Managers at each site. This

allows for direct, real time support for teachers while

simultaneously creating opportunities for promotion

beyond the Lead Teacher Position.

2. CCCDP opened a new location for half day Head Start

Programming in Centerville, MA. The opening of this

center added two classroom availabilities to families in the

area and houses 54 children in four classrooms total. The

programs run from 8:30 to 12:30 and from 10:00 to 2:00 to

offer flexibility to parents.

3. CCCDP Preschool Program and Head Start programs

converted from a limited in-house resource for families

with children in need of mental health services to the

Justice Resource Institute (JRI) this program year. JRI has

the capability to be present in several sites at once, offers

in classroom supports and suggestions, and handles

referrals based on expert observation.

4. CCCDP Preschool and Head Start program submitted our

first application to the Office of Head Start requesting

early Head Start grant monies. Although the grant is still

pending, the addition of these grant monies will help to

expand center programs for infants and toddlers across

Cape Cod.

5. CCCDP’s educational programming has made great

strides towards helping our target populations become

school ready. An especially noticeable jump occurred on

our growing English Language Learner (ELL) communities

with growth in all five of the following areas: Social-

Emotional composite, Physical composite, Language

composite, Cognitive composite, Literacy composite, and

Mathematics.

F. Streamlining services between Family Child Care,

Preschool, and School Age programs has allowed us to

gain better communication across programs for teachers,

students, and families. This has also allowed us to offer the

same technological support and content support (health,

nutrition, etc.) to all programs.

Statistics:

1. Number of Families served: 476

2. Number of Children served: 524 (48 two year olds, 166

three year olds, 218 four year olds, 92 five year olds)

3. Out of 87 Parent Surveys returned in May 2016:

70 were Very Satisfied w/CCCDP services, 17 were

Satisfied and 0 were

Not Satisfied. Notable Achievements in 2016: 1. Creation of Parent Liaison role to provide advocacy

resource and increase enrollment.

2. Establishment of New Provider Orientation to train/

standardize CCCDP practices.

3. Recruitment of 8 family child care providers resulting in

expanded capacity to serve families.

4. Improved collaboration with Early Intervention Program

to facilitate earlier referral and needs awareness of our

shared children.

Statistics:

1. Enrollment of children increased from 124 to 148,

representing a 19% increase in service to families!

2. A 51% increase in meeting day care needs for children

at risk, our supportive children, who are referred through

the Department of Children and Families.

3. In January 2016: 16 Supportive children were enrolled

and 44 on the wait list, in January 2017: 35 Supportive

children were enrolled and 25 on the wait list.

H E A D S TA R T & P R E S C H O O L

Elder spoke no English when he started preschool at Cape Cod Child

Development. He initially had lots of trouble sharing with the other children in

the classroom. His teacher, Miss Laura, used lots of visual aids and went over

the rules several times a day with the entire class. Within a month’s time, Elder

had significantly improved his English speaking and comprehension and he

now listens closely in story time, and ask and answers questions about what

has been read aloud. He also became a very compassionate child, sharing

and helping others. Elder’s Mom and Dad are very happy with his progress in

school and also at home.

“Working with CCCDP is a terrific experience in my career

and personal life. The involvement with children and

families has taught me and also given me the opportunity

to demonstrate how great the work we do is. Here is just

one experience I’d like to share: I accepted a nearly four

year old child, just before he was to enter preschool. He

had no experience following routines or sitting down to

do group activities. Because of that his mother worried

that preschool would be hard for him. So I began working

with him on following routines and how to engage in all

the activities that were awaiting him at preschool. The

time came for him to go to preschool classes and I told

his mother that he would do just fine. A month later she

texted me to let me know that her son was doing great and

everything he learned from daycare was absolutely helpful.

She was so thankful and happy for all I did for her son. I

was so thrilled that he was applying everything I helped

him with. I am truly thankful to Nancy Sorbo and her team

for all the support and training.“

Karlianne Rosson, Hyannis

HEAD START & PRESCHOOL STORY

FCC STORY

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At the Falmouth After School program, we have amazing

children and families. One single mother with three

children under the age of 9 years, has thanked us each and

every day when she picks up her children.

She is a wonderful person, and always treats the staff with

respect. She communicates well with us and gets involved

whenever there is an incident at the center involving her

children. Her goal is to ensue that everyone is on the

same page and there is no gray area where her children’s

behavior or development is concerned.

She appreciates the educational and fun field trips and

enrichment activities for her children. She often can’t

spare the time or money to take her kids herself, so she is

thankful that they “don’t have to miss out on anything fun

because of me.” She is also grateful that our staff helps

do homework with her children, because her 9-year old

is starting to come home with more difficult work, and

sometimes she feels like she cannot always help.

We are thrilled to positively impact the lives of her children

and we appreciate her enthusiasm for CCCDP.

SCHOOL AGE STORY

Notable Achievements in 2016: 1. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and

Secondary Education ASOST Grant Funds for Service

Learning and Social Emotional Learning enabled

Hyannis and Yarmouth School Age Directors to

attend both Service Learning Training and Social

Emotional Learning as well as funding Staff meetings

for SAYO Assessments last spring at both Centers.

2. We provided an eight week Social Emotional

Learning and follow-up Service Learning Summer

Program for 25 children from Yarmouth and Hyannis

at the Arts Center in Harwich with Tammy Harper and

Lenore Lyons. Tammy Harper also provided a half-day

session during the CCCD Staff Day on building staff

team work and stronger communication skills with

our staff and with our families.

3. We offered many summer field trips and on-site

special activities, including an educational pirate

cruise on Lobster Tales in Plymouth, live theater

experiences at the Cape Playhouse, Barnstable

Police Kids Day, trips to the Long Pasture Audubon

Center, a presentation by a Barnstable Fish and

Wildlife Officer, weekly dance lessons with Pam

Wills, presentations

by the New England

Aquarium and a birding

demonstration at the

Brewster Museum of

Natural History.

4. Year round special

events included a visit

to Heritage Museums

and Gardens during

April Vacation. We

collaborated with Mike

Houston and his Cape

Abilities Team for luncheons, Holiday and Presidential

Jeopardy games, kickball games and even a water

balloon fight. We also partnered with the Barnstable

High School Key Club on several occasions in

February, April and October at our Center and

offered a “Super Hero” curriculum, including books,

activities and games designed by Chris Howard.

5. Donations from local businesses and organizations

included regular bread donations from Stop & Shop

via Mr. Bill Creighton and a large quantity of warm

winter clothing from the Barnstable Recreation

Department.

6. Health and well-being support included three

nutrition programs during winter and spring with Sue

Bourque at the Barnstable Cooperative Extension

and participation in the Summer Free Lunch Program

through the YMCA Cape Cod at Faith Assembly

in Hyannis. We also partnered with JRI, Barnstable

Public Schools and various therapists, psychiatrists

and mentors to offer best services to children in crisis

or in need.

Statistics: 192 children total at three centers




Families United Network playgroups offer an opportunity

for socialization, language enhancement, expansion of play,

following routines, and interacting with other children. Groups

are also a wonderful opportunity for families to meet other

families, especially if they are new to the area or are feeling

isolated.

Notable Achievements in 2016: 1. There has been an increase in the number of playgroups

offered, including inclusionary groups with Early

Intervention, groups in the community, and support groups

for parents. There has been an increase in the number of

families attending the groups.

2. There has also been an increase in the number of family

events offered, including story nights, financial literacy

night, family fun events.

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In one of the Families United Network’s playgroups,

“Once Upon A Time,” a goal is for the children to begin

to understand dramatic play in a focused way. Usually

costuming comes naturally to children, but sometimes

inhibitions set in as they grow older, and a certain

shyness of presenting self-expression can be noted. At

first, a playgroup member named Matthew refused to

wear any costuming at all. But then eventually he began

to take part, coloring a cat mask and then making the

sounds of the kitten while holding the mask up to his

face. This is a sign of his beginning to use his imagination

toward story-making and story-creating and it was great

to see it occur in our F.U.N. group.

The Teen Parents program is committed to supporting teen

parents in the ways that they need, in order to be successful

in school and at home. Young fathers and grandparents are

encouraged to take an active role in the program as well.

Notable Achievements in 2016: 1. Teen Parents program has been reinforced with the hiring

of a Program Coordinator to conduct the Program; one

family advocate from CCCDP has also been assigned

to be part of the staff. Teen Parents program now has

regular meetings, communication and coordination with

the CCCDP Intake department and Family Child Care

program.

2. Materials have been translated into Portuguese and

Spanish, allowing better communication with clients.

3. New collaborations with outside community organizations,

such as Health Imperatives and WIC, have allowed us to

set goals for our clients together.

4. We have seen an increase in the number of our clients

since the Teen Parents program staff organized effective

ways to collect referrals from the community, schools,

organizations.

5. A monthly teen support group has been launched.

Statistics: Currently 9 teen families are receiving services.

One young mother, Myrna, had a significant issue with

transportation for her and her young child. The CCCDP

bus and her public school bus arrived at the same time and

because she preferred to wait for her child’s bus in order

to see him off to the daycare provider, Myrna was regularly

missing school.

Because of her inadequate English language skills, she

was not able to explain and request the assistance she

needed to address the situation. However, her CCCDP teen

program family advocate communicated with her in her own

language and got the details of the problem. In partnership

with Health Imperatives, she created a plan to enroll her

again in school and coordinated with both transportation

offices to assure that she will have the enough time to send

her child on the CCCDP bus first before boarding her own

school bus. For this teen mother, CCCDP was an enormous

help at a challenging time in her life.

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TEEN PARENT’S PROGRAM STORY

3. Parents have formed meaningful friendships in the Families

United Network playgroups. They have become supportive

of each other and each other’s children in playgroup.

Statistics:1. There are currently 40 families attending playgroups,

including on-site and in the community, some attending

more than one group, or attending with two children.

2. Towns covered include all of Mid-Cape area, families

outside of catchment area may enroll if space is available,

after giving priority to Mid-Cape.




T E S T I M O N I A L S“The single-minded vision of CCCDP as we accomplished the

distribution of over 2000 toys as part of the Cape Cod Toys for

Tots program in the month of December left me in awe and I was

so proud to be part of the coordination efforts. This was truly

serving children and families!” Brenda MacIsaac – Preschool

Program Administrator

PARENT TESTIMONIALS:

Parent of Manny (age 5) West Main Preschool — “There are a

lot of activities and we always feel welcome.”

Parent of Vytoria (age 4) Falmouth Preschool — “We truly

enjoyed all the teachers and staff. I always felt welcomed when

dropping my child off. I also felt she was in extremely great

hands making her want to go to school on the weekends. Both

my husband and I enjoyed the events along with learning skills

to help our child.”

Parent of Savannah (age 4.5) Hyannis Preschool — “Very

thankful for the time and effort you all show for our family. This

is my second child going through this program with the same

teachers. I intend to put my youngest into this same program.

I trust these people with my very most sacred possession, my

child.”

Parent of Kaylee (age 5) Wareham Preschool — “Kaylee

is bright and more than ready for kindergarten thanks to your

awesome preschool program! Thank you for all you do!”

The mother of a 2-year-old, reports... — “He is using words

instead of hitting as a result of what he has learned at the

Families United Network group.”

The mother of a toddler girl, age 2 ½ reports... — she was

“in awe of the way my daughter is progressing due to the

Families United Network program play group, even leading

group in a song.”

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REVENUES & SUPPORT

Head Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,843,077

Early Education & Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,587,622

Early Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,743,037

Parent Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701,808

Food Reimbursement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355,740

Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328,668

In-Kind Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,962

Coordinated Family & Community Engagement . . . . . 151,900

Cape Cod Neighborhood Support Coalition . . . . . . . . 121,875

Other Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,365

Total Revenues & Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,091,054

EXPENSES

Employee Compensation & Related . . . . . . . . . . . $7,442,189

Other Program & Operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,885,497

Management & General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,635,014

Occupancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421,343

In-Kind Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,962

Administrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,774

Depreciation & Amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,090

Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,542

Bad Debt Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,950

Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,903,361

Change in Net Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $187,693

Head Start

Early Education & Care

Early Intervention

Parent Fees

Food Reimbursement

Contributions

In-Kind Contributions

Coordinated Family & Community Engagement

Cape Cod Neighborhood Support Coalition

Other Income

30%

23%

6%3%

3%1% 1% 1% 0%

32%Head Start

Early Intervention

Early Education & Care

T O T A L R E V E N U E S

& S U P P O R T ( % )


hroughout the year hundreds of individuals, businesses and organizations give

generously to Cape Cod Child Development in a variety of ways. Thank you! You have made

a real difference in the lives of our clients. We couldn’t take such good care of Cape Cod’s

children and families without your support and commitment to our mission.

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