Child Injuries
Child injuries that are required to be reported to the OHS within 7 days?
What is an injury that requires either hospitalization or emergency room medical treatment?
Any staff member working for Head Start and Early Head Start programs who is legally obligated to report suspected child abuse or neglect to the appropriate state child protection agency.
What are mandated reporters?
This organization places the utmost priority on child health and safety.
Who is the Office of Head Start (OHS)?
This strategy ensures that children are safe and adequately supervised in the classrooms and playgrounds.
What is active supervision?
When a child is released to people for whom the parent/guardian has given authorization.
What is authorized release?
A broken bone, severe sprain, chipped or cracked teeth, head trauma, deep cuts, contusions or lacerations, or animal bites.
What is child's injuries require either hospitalization or emergency room medical treatment?
Any conduct used to instill fear or humiliate rather than to educate a child, such as poking or pinching a child; making fun of or laughing about a child; using/withholding food or an activity as a punishment or reward, or isolating a child.
What is inappropriate discipline?
A reportable incident.
What is any incident that can cause serious harm to a child, or instances where a child is left unsupervised or entrusted to an unauthorized adult?"
Consistency/Communication, Counting/Catch, and Name to Face.
What are the main components of the Universal Active Supervision Plan?
All signatures will be legible and signed out by an authorized person listed in ChildPlus, who has a designated person established daily to complete the task and ensure signatures are legible.
What are the procedures in place to ensure authorized release during sign-out?
When minor accidents occur, such as a scrape, paper cut, bumps to the head, or any other minor injury.
What is complete an ouch report?
The use of corporal punishment; isolation to discipline a child, including removing a child from the classroom for any reason other than specified in an approved behavior plan, binding or tying a child to restrict movement or taping a child's mouth; using or withholding food as a punishment or reward; using toilet learning/training methods that punish, demean, or humiliate a child; using any form of emotional abuse, including public or private humiliation, screaming, rejecting, terrorizing, extended ignoring, or corrupting a child; physically abusing a child, including hitting, slapping, or punching a child; pulling on a child's body parts, such as ears, arms, hair, etc., or any intentional act that causes injury or trauma by way of bodily contact; using any form of verbal abuse, including profane, sarcastic language, threats, or derogatory remarks about the child or child's family; or, using physical activity or outdoor time as a punishment or a reward.
What is maltreatment or endangerment to the health and safety of children?
The timeframe specified by HSPPS 45 CFR ยง1302.102(d)(1)(ii) for submitting reports to the responsible HHS official, as interpreted by OHS."
What is immediately or as soon as practicable" to mean without delay but no later than seven calendar days following an incident?
When staff position themselves to see all children at all times.
What is zoning?
This is used when changes are made to the emergency contacts and release authorizations in ChildPlus.
What is the Emergency Contacts and Release Authorizations Change Form?
They are used to complete when reporting injuries that require medical attention, hospitalization, or emergency room medical treatment.
What is the universal reporting form?
Used to complete when reporting any inappropriate discipline is any type of conduct used to instill fear or humiliate rather than to educate a child, such as poking or pinching a child; making fun of or laughing about a child; using/withholding food or an activity as a punishment or reward, or isolating a child.
What is the universal reporting form?
The consequences that OHS imposes if a program fails to report a significant incident within seven calendar days from the occurrence."
What is a monitoring finding, which may include a deficiency determination?
Used to complete when reporting any amount of time a child was left unsupervised while in the care of the program.
What is universal reporting form?
Used to complete when any children enrolled in a Head Start or Early Head Start classroom are released to an authorized person.
What is universal reporting form?