Home-Based
The frequency of home visits to families in the Home-Based program.
What is once a week?
This is a list of rules or regulations that EHS/HS programs must follow to ensure a quality program.
What are the Performance Standards
Screening and assessment tool completed within 45 days about children's development
What is the ASQ, ASQ:SE and DIAL?
ERSEA
What is Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment and Attendance?
Head Start programs are required to use this framework to ensure that children are ready for school
Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF)
The length of home visits
What is ninety minutes?
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? PPP 11
The term is used to describe a child who is acquiring two or more languages at the same time, or a child who is learning a second language while continuing to develop their first language
What is Dual Language Learners?
ROI
What is Release Of Information?
This federal agency oversees the Head Start program - full name
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
The number of group socials that happen in a month
What is a minimum of two?
Employees and volunteers of YFS are prohibited from accepting gifts, money &/or gratuities from persons receiving benefits or services. Expects ethical and professional conduct of employees, avoid conflict of interest, restricts political activities, etc.
What is the YFS Code of Conduct & Business Ethics? PER 13
The annual process of analyzing progress on program goals and planning for the next program year, including parents, policy council, staff and community members
What is the self-assessment?
NHSA
What is National Head Start Association?
Who authorizes the amount of federal funding each year for Head Start.
Congress of the United States
The evidence-based curriculum used for home visits in the home-based program
What is Parents As Teachers?
Ensure staff, consultants, contractors, and volunteers do not maltreat or endanger the health or safety of children, including, at a minimum, that staff must not: use corporal punishment, use isolation to discipline a child, bind or tie a child to restrict movement or tape a child’s mouth, use or withhold food as a punishment or reward, use toilet learning/training methods that punish, demean, or humiliate a child, use any form of emotional abuse, including public or private humiliation, rejecting, terrorizing, extended ignoring, or corrupting a child, physically abuse a child, use any form of verbal abuse, including profane, sarcastic language, threats, or derogatory remarks about the child or child’s family, use physical activity or outdoor time as a punishment or reward
What is the HBHS Behavior Guidance & Discipline Guideline and Standard of Conduct? PPP 3
What is enrolled?
LEA
What Local Education Agency?
What year was Head Start established?
1965
Property or services that benefit a grant-supported project or program and are contributed by non-federal third parties without charge to the grantee.
What is in-kind?
Any staff member, volunteer, or witness who feels that a child may have been abused or neglected is to immediately report her/his feelings to the director or to the individual who is designated as the Supervisor. After verbally reporting the incident to the director or her designee, the employee/volunteer is to document in writing what s(he) observed. This report is to include the date of the incident, time, those involved, and a statement of what was observed. This written report is to be given to the director or her designee.
What is YFS Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse/Neglect Policy? PPP 13-15
The expectations of children's status and progress across domains of language and literacy development, cognition and general knowledge, approaches to learning, physical well-being and motor development, and social and emotional development that will improve their readiness for kindergarten.
What is school readiness goals?
ECLKC
What is Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center?
What is the meaning of the Head Start symbol?
The building blocks of the Head Start logo are a metaphor for the development and growth of children through Head Start family and community partnerships. The red and white stripes represent the American flag and the arrow, printed on a blue background symbolizes upward movement for families