Home-Based
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Programming
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The frequency of home visits to families in the Home-Based program.

 What is once a week?

100

This is a list of rules or regulations that EHS/HS programs must follow to ensure a quality program.

What are the Performance Standards

100

Screening and assessment tool completed within 45 days about children's development

What is the ASQ, ASQ:SE and DIAL?

100

ERSEA

What is Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment and Attendance?

100

Head Start programs are required to use this framework to ensure that children are ready for school

Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF)

200

The length of home visits 

What is ninety minutes?

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?   PPP 11

200

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?

200

ROI

What is Release Of Information?

200

This federal agency oversees the Head Start program - full name

Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

300

The number of group socials that happen in a month

What is a minimum of two?

300

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

300

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?

300

NHSA

What is National Head Start Association?

300

Who authorizes the amount of federal funding each year for Head Start.

Congress of the United States

400

The evidence-based curriculum used for home visits in the home-based program

What is Parents As Teachers?

400

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

400
When a child has been accepted and attended at least one class for center based or at least one home visit for the home-based option.

What is enrolled?

400

LEA

What Local Education Agency?

400

What year was Head Start established?

1965

500

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?

500

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

500

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?

500

ECLKC

What is Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center?

500

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

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