Maureen Dermott joined SETA as the Sacramento County Head Start Deputy Director in October of 2006. She has direct fiscal and operational oversight of a $55 million budget serving some 6000+ children of low-income families with comprehensive, high quality early care and education services in some 118 locations, countywide.
Maureen comes to Head Start with a strong administrative and operational background in early care and education. Prior to this position, Maureen served as the CEO of a large not-for-profit, school readiness program in Orange County, Florida. With a $65 million budget, some 17,000+ children, ages birth-four years of age, were provided quality early care and education and universal pre-k services.
As a Region Manager for a major national child care provider, her career has also included operational oversight of 75 childcare facilities employing 1,300 teachers, located in Northern California, Nevada, and Utah serving some 10,000 children ages infant-school age. And, she fondly recalls her first venture into the field of early care and education, as the founding Director of the first on-site, corporate sponsored, child care center at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Maureen has been a strong advocate for the early care and education community, throughout the years, serving on early care and education boards, presenting at conferences, participating on panels and committees all structured to improve the quality of care and services to families. And, she is particularly committed to the professional development of early care educators.
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