Family Engagement
This includes displaying parent boards, using a parent resource room, having smiling faces each day, implementing an open door policy, providing parent meetings/trainings, giving individual children cubbies, and displaying pictures of all cultures and ethnicities represented
What is creating a welcoming enviroment
Attending meetings in the community to learn about other resources and to recruit for the program
What is networking
Staff send a reminder letter the month prior, then call or talk in person with parents and make notes in CP until documents are received
What is the process for reminding parents about upcoming health requirements due
This is done when we suspect a child in our program may be neglected
What is report to DCF
This promotes positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities in accordance with the Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.
What is Community Engagement?
Health, Dental, Domestic Violence, Nutrition, Child abuse and neglect, Child development
What is health related workshops that must be offered for parents every program year
It is how we ensure playground is ready for children to enjoy outdoor play
What is Playground Safety Checklist
These agreements help Head Start enroll foster care children and families who are on public assistance.
What is child welfare agreements (those with DCF and related agencies).
This is used by the CM, FA and family when a child's attendance falls below 90% for two months in a row
What is attendance action plan
Health requirements due within 90 days of enrollment where the FA and HV works with families to obtain results from pediatricians before coordinating with health specialists to complete onsite.
What is Lead and Dental
Requires focused attention and intentional observation of children at all times.
What is Active Supervision?
This happens when parents participate in home visits and parent/teacher conferences with teachers, and when parents complete at home learning activities and at home reading activities to help extend their child’s learning from the classroom to the home environment, and when parents attend different workshops to increase their knowledge and skills.
What is Parent’s engagement as their children’s primary teacher and nurturer and the support of that role
This is the name of the new agreement which will provide us with "overstock" goods in the form of a truck from Wal-Mart that we can use as in-kind.
What is Good360
These two things happen to ensure children are safe when they aren't in attendance.
What is calling the parents to check on child's whereabouts within an hour of the program opening then completing a home visit on day two with no contact.
This two things needs to happen with a parent when a child fails a screening.
What is contacting the parent to let them know of the results and continuing to follow up with parent until needed services are received.
Children may only be released to adults authorized by parents or legal guardians whose identity has been verified by photo identification.
What is Parent Contact Notebook?
About $6 million
What is the amount of non-federal match ECS needs.
Which types of eligibility will get a family 100 points?
What is foster care, homelessness or public assistance
This is put in place by the MHS when a child needs support in the classroom regarding behavior or social/emotional development and this is subsequently reviewed with parents in a meeting with the FA, CM, teacher, parent, and MHS.
What is a behavior support plan
Organizations that serve young children have an obligation to ensure that children in their care are in healthy and safe environments, and that policies and procedures that protect children are in place
What is our health and safety checklist?