Meet PCI's Executive Team!
embarked on her first job and first day of work on June 27, 1979, and has been part of Parent/Child Incorporated ever since. She came to PCI planning to work for the summer months and wound up staying for 45 years. Mrs. Bedoy, a divorced mother of one son at the time, came to be employed with Parent/Child Incorporated through the WIN program, which offered job training and possible job placement to young women wanting to get off of welfare. She started as a clerk typist in the purchasing department that only had a department supervisor employed at the time. She worked hard to adapt to the fast-paced office of a new agency providing Head Start services and worked in the department over the years being promoted to the position of Procurement Manager working directly with vendors on maintenance and supplies needed, responsible for the warehouse and assisted with training center managers and administrative staff on purchasing procedures before working Public Relations for a year. In that year she was the reporter for the staff newsletter, coordinated the special activities for the agency and scheduled TV spots for the Executive Director on local morning shows. Mrs. Bedoy transferred to the Head Start Operations Department becoming the Operations Coordinator working under the Head Start Director where she assisted with the policy council, handling of employee and parent concerns for the Head Start Director, and eventually managing the operations of the office and assisting with aspects of the center operations component. She used the vast knowledge and skills gained through the years and holding various positions to transfer to the Executive Director’s office to become the Executive Secretary where she worked with the first-level executives, the board of directors, provided training to clerical staff, assisted with preparation of proposals and all tasks associated with managing the office and was promoted to Office Manager/Executive Secretary. Mrs. Bedoy is currently an executive working directly under the Chief Executive Officer/HS/EHS Director and is responsible for managing the CEO Office, leases, contracts, the Policy Council, assisting the CEO with the Board of Directors, and serves as a Facilitator for the CEO’s Leadership PCI. She has been a member of the Texas Head Start Association since 1992 and has served on the board of directors as a member, Secretary and also served on the scholarship and finance committees. Mrs. Bedoy has also served as a member of the Region VI Head Start Association’s board of directors as an alternate representing the State of Texas and is also a member of the National Head Start Association. She has served on various committees throughout the years including conference-planning committees. The hours of training received through Parent/Child Incorporated and at the state, regional and national level are vast, and the knowledge obtained has been beneficial not only to her job, but also beneficial to her staff, management, co-workers, and those she provides training and technical assistance to.