Family and Community Engagement
An interactive process through which program staff and families, family members, and their children build positive and goal-oriented relationships. It is a shared responsibility of families and professionals that requires mutual respect for the roles and strengths each has to offer
What is Family and Community Engagement
HHS issues in late January each year. This is utilized to determine eligibility and is based on family size and income.
What is Federal Poverty Guidelines?
The indoor and outdoor environment is set up; Staff always position themselves; Staff will scan and count; Staff anticipate children’s behavior; Staff listen
What is child supervision and safety?
Access to appropriate, quality care is determined in a timely manner to encourage preventative well-child, early diagnosis and effective treatment.
What is determining child health status?
Governing Bodies shall not have a financial interest in the Early Head Start program.
Governing bodies shall not receive compensation
Governing bodies shall not be employed by the Early Head Start program.
What is conflict of interest policy?
Based on Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships and Consists of Program Foundations, Program Impact Areas, Family Outcomes, and Child Outcomes.
What is the Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.
The process of finding possible eligible children/families for Early Head Start enrollment opportunities. It is a year-round practice and includes community outreach and relationship building and partnering with the community.
What is recruitment?
Creative Curriculum, Kindermusik, Frog Street and Partners for a Healthy Baby.
What are the curriculums we use?
Through careful planning, preparation and training, staff will be prepared, to respond quickly and appropriately to accidents, illness, and emergencies.
What is the accident, emergency preparedness plan?
Parents are voted to represent and oversee the direction of the program in collaboration with the Board of Directors.
What is the Policy Council?
It is completed twice a year (pre and post) with families to determine family strengths and needs. It is inputted into Child Plus.
What is the Family Needs Assessment
Proof of ALL combined income for the previous calendar year or preceding 12 months.
Proof of child’s birth
Proof of address
Proof of categorical eligibility
What are the documents needed to determine eligibility.
Within 45 days of enrollment each child receives a developmental and a social emotional screening identifying potential concerns or area of need regarding behavioral, developmental, motor, language, social, cognitive and emotional skills .
What is the ASQ-3 and SE?
This is utilized to document behaviors and includes the date/time behavior occurred; what was happening when the behavior occurred; what was happening before; what the behavior looked like and what were the consequences.
What is the ABC (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence) Chart form.
Leads the meetings
With the Director prepare and review agenda before meeting.
Review packet/documents before meeting
Act as an official representative of the council
Sign all approved items
Who is the Chairperson/President?
Acknowledging the strengths of families first; respecting and learning from differences; showing openness to adapting practice based on family preferences; sharing decision-making; approaching families as equals and reciprocal partners in support of their child.
What is a strengths-based approach?
Priority will be given based on age, income and number of risk factors. The higher the points assigned to the child, based on age, income and risk factors, the higher they rank on the waitlist.
What is selection criteria?
The program pulls together (aggregates) and analyzes child-level assessment data for all participating children three times a year. The data is utilized to determine progress of these.
What are school readiness goals?
Children enrolled in the program are required to have an up-to-date physical exam/well child check, up to date immunizations, an annual dental exam (for children over 1 year), a hemoglobin/hematocrit (for children over 1 year), and blood lead screen (required when child turns 1 and again when child turns 2).
What are Health Requirements?
Consists of the purpose, function, composition, election process, eligibility of members, term of office, resignations and removals of members, vacancy, conflict of interest, duties and responsibilities, description of office, quorum grievance procedures, amendments, attendance, definition of meetings, and voting rights.
What are Bylaws.
They can connect families to outside resources, encourage engagement in children's learning, and use community strengths and needs assessment data to guide collaboration. They can also promote successful transitions for children and families from one service setting to another over time, or when multiple services are needed during the same time period.
What is Community Partnerships?
This is used to notify families, in person, of our efforts to contact them and notify them of their child’s absences. This attempt to contact the family is meant to reengage them, resume attendance and open communication regarding the purpose of the reoccurring absences and offer support, resources, or services whenever possible.
What is an Attendance Memo?
Are consistent and predictable to help children feel safe, secure, and loved; Give children a sense of control over their environment as they learn what to expect and what is coming next; Act as a set of instructions or step-by-step guide for helping children successfully get through their day; Include having fun or spending time together (e.g., reading books every night at bedtime), which can strengthen family relationships and create special memories; Can eliminate power struggles as children learn what to do at certain times of the day, such as cleaning up toys before bedtime.
What are schedules and routines?
Training required so that individuals involved in all levels of administration of programs that receive federal financial assistance understand federal laws, regulations, instructions, policies and other guidance and implements nondiscrimination regulations.
What is Civil Rights Training?
This includes A Year in View of the Governance and Training and at each policy council meeting, members will assume their responsibility in the governance of the US/EHS as stipulated by Head Start Regulation. In addition, at every policy council meeting the Policy Council will engage in a training of the Head Start Program Performance Standards which will build their knowledge base about the Head Start Program Regulations.