The Employee Waitlist Incentive is a program designed to help grow the waitlist at Shasta Head Start, while giving our employees an opportunity to earn some extra money at the same time. This incentive is designed to have employees help families they meet during their daily lives. The referrals for our waitlist must be collected during non-work hours (non-company paid time) and on your own time. Employees can print out copies of the referral sheet while at work and they may submit a completed referral sheet during work.

Participation in the waitlist incentive is voluntary and will not affect your employment with Shasta Head Start.

How to Complete a Referral:

Search the family in ChildPlus and ensure they are NOT currently waitlisted. NOTE: If a family is already on the waitlist, the employee referral cannot be submitted for incentive credit.
Complete the Employee Referral Form immediately after contacting the family. Be sure to fill out all fields. NOTE: if any field is left blank, the Employee Referral will not be eligible for the Waitlist Incentive.
Scan the completed Employee Referral Form to the “EE Referral” Scan folder.
The Executive Assistant will document the receipt of the Referral Form and pass it to ERSEA to contact the family.
Executive Assistant will track families in R&R in ChildPlus to see when waitlisted and if eligible.

Head Start Eligibility Requirements

Income
Foster Children
McKinney Vento (Homeless)
Public Assistance: CalWorks/CalFresh (SNAP)/TANF
Supplemental Security Income

Once the referral has been approved by the Executive Director, the waitlist incentive will be paid out on the referring employee’s regular paycheck, taxed as regular earnings.
- NOTE: The Employee Waitlist Incentive is worth $200 per eligible family.

To Qualify for the Waitlist Incentive the following must be met:

Family CANNOT already be listed on a Shasta Head Start waitlist (Both HS and EHS).
Employee Referral Form must be submitted via “EE Referral” scan folder.
The referring employee must be employed at the time of payment.
The family must meet Head Start Eligibility requirements as determined by ERSEA Department.
The recruitment of the family and the Employee Referral Forms must be completed on your own time (outside of your scheduled work hours) and cannot be attained when you are on the clock to be eligible for the waitlist incentive. (Note: over income families are not eligible families for the incentive)
Families must be waitlisted in the Head Start Program – Early Head Start or Head Start
If the same family is referred by multiple employees, the earliest date on the Employee Referral Form will determine who gets the incentive.
Incentive will be paid based on the family’s eligibility. If more than one child is eligible in the referred family only one incentive will be paid to the referring employee.
Management staff are not eligible for the waitlist incentive.
Employee Referral Forms must be signed by Executive Director prior to payment.

If you would like to see where your referral is regarding the waitlist incentive, please see Employee Waitlist Incentive Tracking System PDF for status.

NOTE: The Employee Waitlist Incentive Tracking System is updated on the 1^st of every month.

Shasta Head Start reserves the right to discontinue this waitlist incentive at any time without prior notice.