Tri-county Community Action Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Tri county community action, inc. (tcca) head start/early head start serves angelina, jasper, newton, sabine, shelby, san augustine, and tyler counties. The vision statement is to serve as a model community action agency, empowering families, and communities to achieve self-reliance through high-quality programs and services, strategic community collaborations, strong stakeholder support, and effective agency leadership. Head start/early head start is funded by the department of health and human services (dhhs), administration for children and families (acf).tcca head start/early head start is committed to providing high quality services to our children and families. Integrity, professionalism, teamwork, and compassion are important to each employee, and we work daily to achieve this goal.tcca head start/early head start is a comprehensive child development program for children and families who meet age and income criteria. The program is deeply rooted in providing children with medical, dental, mental wellness, nutritional, and educational services. Tcca head start/early head start is funded to serve a total of 414 children aged 0-5. The early head start program has 136 slots for children in a center-based setting. The head start program has 278 slots for children in center-based settings. The head start program cumulatively served a total of 334 children in the head start program and 168 in the early head start program.tcca head start/early head start takes pride in providing parents with an ongoing source of educational opportunities. Tcca head start/early head start has a successful partnership with the west sabine independent school district where we serve a total of 37 head start children within two classrooms.tcca head start/early head start partners with the foster grandparent program. Tcca head start/early head start also partners with local colleges, such as angelina college, stephen f. Austin, and panola college. These partnerships help provide educational opportunities to help accomplish goals for staff and parents. Panola college students even provided onsite training to our children and their parents on the importance of handwashing and tooth brushing.tcca head start/early head start is committed to providing excellent educational services to children through working to meet the school readiness goals. Children are assessed 3 times a year and outcomes are monitored, analyzed, and aggregated by the education team. Families are kept informed of their child's individual goals and achievements throughout the program year through 2 home visits and parent conferences. The teaching staff also provide outcome reports to our parents along with activities that they can do in the home setting to work with their child. This is in hopes of closing the home school connection. School readiness and family engagement must work closely together to ensure the needs of the entire family are met. This program sets goals for families in seven outcome areas; family well-being, positive parent-child relationships, families as lifelong educators, families as learners, family engagement in transaction, family connections to peers and community, and families as advocates and learners. Family outcomes play a huge role in the success of the child and the ability of the family to move forward out of poverty.tcca head start/early head start partners with other social service agencies and area resources to ensure parents and community members know what resources are available. The program does this through partnerships and joint community events such as resource fairs, family service advisory meetings, community resource coordination groups (crcg) meetings, policy council meetings.we had 574 volunteers for last program year.the program is committed to providing excellent educational services through our school readiness program and family engagement program.family service worker/advocates have monthly staff meetings to ensure they receive ongoi

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
• Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings