Community Assessment 2020-2025

Sacramento Employment and Training Agency 2020-2025
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS / WELL-CHILD CHECKS / HEALTH SCREENINGS
Internal Data
Head Start/Early Head Start follow the American Pediatric periodicity table, Bright Futures, to
ensure all enrolled children receive all age-appropriate preventive health screenings and
examinations. The following chart shows the percentage of children who had up-to-date medical
screenings over the past five-year grant period.
% Completed Medical Screenings
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019
EHS
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The chart shows the need for the Head Start Program to focus on systems and procedures that ensure
all medical screenings are completed as required. Over the past year, SETA focused on expanding
community partnerships to support health services. One of the partnerships includes the UC Davis
Nursing School where a rotation of nursing students works with the program during the summer to
perform needed medical screenings, oral health screenings, staff training, and parent education on
focused health topics. The nurses have been invaluable to the program with an increased focused
on oral health, hygiene and blood lead testing and education.
Additionally, ten percent (10%) of the children screened needed further medical treatment, of which
97% received the needed treatment.
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