ELIGIBILITY
The age requirement for children enrolling in an Early Head Start Classroom
What is a child must be an infant or toddler younger than 3 years old?
A tool used to provide information about the needs and resources of Head Start-eligible families and the community within a service area
What is the Community Needs Assessment?
A form used to determine A family’s highest needs
The funded number of Head Start spots for FIV and Champaign counties
This is how often each enrolled child’s attendance should be checked
What is daily?
The Eligibility duration for children enrolled in the program
What is two consecutive years?
The percentage of children with disabilities a program must enroll
What is 10 percent?
A program develops this at the beginning of each enrollment year and maintains it during the year, this tool ranks children according to the program’s selection criteria
What is a rolling waitlist?
The number of days a program has to fill a vacant slot
What is 30 days?
A home visit should be made when a child has been absent from the center for this many consecutive unexplained absences.
What is 2 consecutive unexplained absences?
The documents required to verify a family who is experiencing homelessness?
What is the written statement from homeless shelter, HS Self-Identification Homeless form?
Program staff responsible for recruiting new children and families
What is all Head Start staff?
The program must not deny enrollment based on disabilities and.........
What are chronic health conditions?
This is the maximum percentage of enrollment slots a program may reserve for pregnant women, children experiencing homelessness, and children in foster care when a vacancy occurs
What is 3 %?
After this many consecutive days of no contact from the family, a child’s enrollment slot is considered vacant.
What is 30 consecutive days?
Families are required to complete this in order for a child to be moved from Early Head Start to Head Start
What is a new application and submit new income?
Families considered categorically eligible for Head Start
What is homeless, foster care, and public assistance?