Definitions
Roles and Responsibilities
Ratio
Supervision
Accountability
100

Trained CYP Professionals are assigned to be physically present with the children in care at all times

What is Supervision?

100

Provide immediate coaching, guidance, or additional support to CYP professionals

Who is the Program Director?

100

1:4

What is the infants?

100

Applying developmental appropriate observations

What is active supervision?

100

The act of quickly, simply, and vocally counting the number of children in care

What are head counts?

200

CYP professionals are responsible and have a system in place to account for the whereabouts of all children

What is Accountability?

200

Support line of sight supervision by wearing approved color-coded apparel

Who is the Training and Curriculum Specialist?

200

1:5

What is pretoddler/toddler?

200

Refers to the way CYP professionals continually place themselves in any environment to ensure all children are within sight and/or sound by at least one CYP professional at all times

What is positioning?

200

A detailed head count procedure that requires CYP professionals to account for each individual child

What is Name-to-Face recognition?

300

The relationship in quantity between a CYP professional assigned to care for children and the number of children for whom they are responsible

What is Staff:child ratio?

300

Demonstrate effective supervision strategies to ensure children feel safe and secure

Who is a program lead?

300

1:12

What is preschool?

300

A strategy in which CYP professionals estabilish specific zones/areas in a space where each professional has primary supervision responsibility to scan the entire area

What is zoning?

300

Continuously view the entire care environment to observe the whereabouts of all children

What are visual sweeps?

400

The ability to see and hear each child at any point

What is sight and sound supervision?

400

Know the required supervision and accountability measures and follow all required protocols

Who are program assistants?

400

1:15

What is youth?

400

The age group that must be supervised by sight AND sound in care at all times

What is infant, and toddlers?

400

Allows programs to track and monitor each child's attendance

What is attendance roster?

500

Line of Sight Supervision

What is LOSS?

500

Serves as the facility gatekeeper to ensure that everyone who enters and exits the facility are documented and tracked

Who are the operations clerk?

500

1:8

What is youth field trip?

500

The age group that must be supervised by sight most of the time

What is preschool?

500

A type of head count conducted before every staff transition, when one staff departs and a replacing staff assumes responsibility

What is a staff transition head count?

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