Thursday, November 23, 2017

Most Of The 88 Centro Hispano Employees In Milwaukee Will Stay On Instead Of Facing Lay-offs

Centro Hispano in Milwaukee announced that most of the 88 employees in the Head Start and Early Start programs that were expected to permanently face lay-offs on November 30 will get extended temporary jobs beginning on December 1 with Development Institute Head Start.

By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

November 23, 2017

Milwaukee, WI - Jennifer Morton from Mueller Communications, LLC released the following statement to Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) from the Centro Hispano. The following statement was issued on Wednesday by Toni Rivera-Joachin, President and CEO of Centro Hispano Milwaukee: Although Centro Hispano's Head Start and Early Head Start programs are ending as of November 30, 2017, we are pleased to announce that 86% of our Head Start employees have been offered positions under the interim Head Start provider, Community Development Institute Head Start (CDI HS). CDI HS was selected by the Federal Department of Health and Human Services to provide Head Start/Early Head Start services to our families on an interim basis beginning December 1, 2017. The other 14% of Centro Hispano's Head Start employees have been given the opportunity to apply for the remaining positions under CDI HS.
More importantly, the families that we serve will continue to receive Head Start services from CDI HS. We have been assured that CDI HS will do it's best to deliver quality Head Start services with a minimal amount of disruption for the families.

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