It also hired the Chicago company Schal Bovis to serve as its facility renovation consultant. In October 1994, DHS hired Midwest Management Consultants, Inc. to review its procedures for facility renovations and for monitoring delegate agencies. Though the firm found that DHS had made major changes, it called for further improvements in five areas, ranging from paying construction vouchers faster to hiring additional staff with specific technical skills. DHS's Hannaway says that the agency has begun implementing some of the recommendations and has plans to address them all. For example, it has put a facility coordinator in its budget and adapted its computer system to include information about renovation costs.
Families look to schools for support.
They want their younger children to be with their older siblings who are already in school. Having Head Start in the schools allows children to be introduced to school, and Head Start has a proven track record of getting parents involved early. Perhaps the only clear winner in the Head Start transfer are the churches and other facilities that provide Head Start classrooms. In the transfer process, a number of the facilities got updated fire alarm systems, office suites and so on. In the basement of the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Logan Square, for instance, Christopher House administers a Head Start program with 68 slots.