FA2
The acronym FA2 stands for
What is Focus Area Two
Name one of the Head Start services that support children's growth.
What are early learning and development
Health
Family well-being
The E in ERSEA stands for this. Focusing on determining, verifying and documenting.
What is Eligibility?
Head Start children receive more of this specific type of health care than their non-HS peers.
What is dental treatment?
Federal laws that Head Start and Early Head Start programs must follow.
What are the Performance Standards?
This office conducts the FA2
Who is the Office of Head Start?
Head Start was originally designed to help break the cycle of __________ by providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet their emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs.
What is poverty?
The R in ERSEA stand for this. Focusing on the systematic year-round process that reaches out to families in your program's service area to determine if they are interested and eligible in Head Start and or Early Head Start.
What is Recruitment?
Within 45 days of enrollment, these two sensory screening questionnaires need to be completed.
What are vision and hearing?
The purpose of this is for an opportunity for grantees to demonstrate their effectiveness in implementing a high-quality program to promote positive outcomes and school readiness for children and their families.
What is the purpose of Focus Area Two?
FA2 reviewer will explore and learn about grantees in what ways
What are data tours
Explorations of classrooms
Discussions with managers, teachers, parents, and the governing body.
Head Start operates in how many US states?
What is all 50?
The S in ERSEA. Focused on a program's annually establish criteria that weighs and prioritizes the choice of participants, based on community needs identified in the community needs assessment.
What is Selection?
Teachers must wash their hands first, then put on gloves before cleaning and removing diapers. They then must change gloves before putting on clean clothes and a diaper on a child.
What is the Diaper Procedure?
Must be completed (completely and accurately) daily.
What is Child Plus?
Staff that could be interviewed during the FA2
Who are all SI Head Start and Early Head Start staff?
How young are the children that Early Head Start can serve?
What are Prenatal/Pregnant woman?
The second E in ERSEA. Focused on a program maintaining its funded student body level and fill any vacancy as soon as possible. A program must fill any vacancy within 30 days.
What is Enrollment?
The following items will be verified at the center: There are Disaster and First Aid Kits; all medications are on-site with proper labeling (prescription) and authorizations on file; are in a locked box and are inaccessible to children.
What is a Health and Safety Monitoring checklist?
What the grantee and delegate agencies use to establish their policies and procedures
What are the Head Start Program Performance Standards?
Program Management and Quality Improvement, Education and Child Development Services, Health Program Services, Family and Community Engagement Services, Fiscal Infrastructure and ERSEA are
What are the key focus areas of the 2023 FA2?
What year did Head Start start?
What is 1965?
The A in ERSEA. Focused on a program's process to ensure children are safe when they do not arrive at school. If a child is unexpectedly absent and a parent has not contacted the program within one hour of program start time, the program must attempt to contact the parent to ensure the child’s well-being.
What is Attendance?
A Head Start program must analyze the causes of absenteeism when the monthly average daily attendance rate falls below this percentage.
What is 85%
The most important thing to develop with families that will help everything that happens in your classroom.
What is a trusting relationship?