Education/Health
Family & Community Partnerships
Facilities, Materials, & Equipment
Human Resources
Put It All In the Soup
100
The primary source of reimbursement for meals for Head Start Children.
What is Child and Adult Care Food Program or CACFP?
100

What do I need from families to enter in Smart Teach and Learning Genie

What is the parent's email?

100
Financial assistance received by a grantee from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to administer a Head Start program pursuant to the Head Start Act.
What is a grant?
100

CDA

What is the Child Development Associate Certificate?

100
If a child refuses food, staff and parents are encouraged to offer such food again at some future time. Children may require a number ofexposures to new food before accepting it.
What steps are taken to encourage children to try new foods?
200
To enhance bonding and to establish a sense of security as well as to preventing choking, ear infections, or dental problems such as baby bottle tooth decay.
Why are infants held while being fed and not laid down to sleep with a bottle?
200

What is required 2 times each year, at the beginning and end of school?

What is a home visit?

200
Use of child-resistant covers, installation of child-protection outlets, or use of safety plugs.
What is preventing electrical shock?
200
All information obtained about children, families and employees is to be held in confidence. Only to be shared on a "need to know" basis with other employees and/or professional consultants providing services to children, families or employees.
What is the confidentiality policy?
200
These activities are done throughout the day, art activities, sand and water play, blocks building, shape sorting, feeding, solving puzzles, exploring textures, stringing beads.
What are motor activities for preschool-age children?
300

Describes the goals for a identified child during the school year, as well as any special support needed to help achieve them.

What is an IEP?

300
Providing parents with applications for their child's home school. Inviting representatives from local schools and school of choices to speak about their programs. Taking the children on field trips to the elementary school.
What is a transistion from Head Start to Elementary School?
300

What to do if you observe equipment, facilities, or materials that require repair?

Complete a maintenance request.

300

Employees, or any person acting as an agent for CHS may not accept gratuities, favors or anything of monetary value from contractors or potential contractors.

What is the Gifts/Gratuities policy?

300
Teachers acknowledge feelings, verbalize feelings, listen to all sides, anticipate and redirect challenging behavior when needed.
How do teachers engage children in problem-solving strategies and support positive guidance?
400
In this training staff will learn how to properly administer medication to children in the program.
What is Medication Administration?
400

Ensuring families meet the qualifications to enroll children in Head Start.

What is income eligibility?

400
35 square feet indoors and at least 75 square feet space per child.
What is the usable indoor and outdoor play space per child?
400

The results of this tool are used to identify staff training and professional development needs, and assist each staff member in improving his/her skills and professional competencies.

What is a Professional Development Plan?

400

10%

What is the percent of disability children required to serve?

500
Within 30 calendar days from the child's entry into the program.
What is obtaining schedules & recommendations for well child care?
500
Increasing family access to materials, services and activities essential to family literacy development and assisting parents to recognize their own literacy goals.
What is providing children and families opportunities to participate in family literacy?
500

Prohibiting the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs on property, and educating families about the harmful effects of smoking, including secondhand smoke on children. Protecting children from the harmful effects of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or unhealthy chemicals.

What is an environment free of toxins?

500
This resource can help with stress and burnout along with helping plan for a party, moving, legal matters, counseling and financial matters to name a few.
What is the Employee Assistance Program or EAP?
500
Staff must report directly to their Program Director/Immediate Supervisor any suspected/reported child abuse or neglect by a parent, guardian, child, or other adult.
What steps do you take if you suspect child abuse or neglect?
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