Over 65 employees participated in the team building training. Head Start hired Jeffrey Benjamin of Breakthrough Training to facilitate a full-day program on how to build a team. Employees were engaged in interactive team activities that promoted effective communication strategies, communication styles, and best practices for communicating with coworkers, parents, and students. Breakthrough Training has worked with Head Start on several occasions providing employee development training. Head Start programs promote school readiness for economically disadvantaged children by enhancing their social and cognitive development through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services. Head Start programs serve children ages 3-5 and their families.
