Head Start Director heads to UCLA

Pamela Bratspies Cho, Director of Child Development Services for Head Start of the Lehigh Valley, was recently selected through a national competitive application process to attend an intense two-week UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Head Start Management Fellows Program in Los Angeles.

The Head Start – Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows Program provides a unique opportunity for Head Start administrators to build their executive and entrepreneurial management skills. Eighty hours of classroom instruction, case studies, workshops and group discussions will cover human resource management, organization design and development, finance, data analysis, operations management and marketing.

Cho is a 7-year veteran of Head Start/Early Head Start with a 25-year career in social work and children’s services. She previously earned a Master’s of Social Work from the University Pennsylvania. Before her tenure with Head Start/Early Head Start, she was the director of placement services with Pinebrook Services.

Paula Margraf, Executive Vice President and Director of Head Start/Early Head Start of the Lehigh Valley, was previously selected as a fellow in the program as was Rebecca Fenerty, Director of Head Start Operations and Family Services.

Community Services for Children, which administers Head Start of the Lehigh Valley, provides quality early childhood education and related service affecting 40,000 children annually in 18 counties of Pennsylvania.