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Family Engagement
Community Engagement
ERSEA
Health
Safety
100

This includes displaying parent boards, using a parent resource room, having smiling faces each day, implementing an open door policy, providing parent meetings/trainings, giving individual children cubbies, and displaying pictures of all cultures and ethnicities represented

What is creating a welcoming enviroment

100

Attending meetings in the community to learn about other resources and to recruit for the program

What is networking

100
When a child attends the first day of class or receives some type of service
What is enrollment
100

Staff send a reminder letter the month prior, then call or talk in person with parents and make notes in CP until documents are received

What is the process for reminding parents about upcoming health requirements due

100

This is done when we suspect a child in our program may be neglected

What is report to DCF

200
This happens when staff fully engage families in the family partnership agreement process in addition to targeting support and inviting families to specific trainings. Teachers and FAs work together to engage families in classroom activities, at home learning activities, and at home reading activities. Support specialists follow up with families with any health, nutrition, mental health, dental or disability needs. All program staff create a warm welcoming so that families come to center events, festivals, and other holiday activities. Coaches are also involved in family engagement as they work to model for the teachers how to achieve quality classroom environments.
What is successfully engaging families in all program services.
200

This promotes positive, enduring change for children, families, and communities in accordance with the Office of Head Start Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Framework.

What is Community Engagement?

200
the form and point system used to place families on a ranked waiting list
What is selection criteria
200

Health, Dental, Domestic Violence, Nutrition, Child abuse and neglect, Child development

What is health related workshops that must be offered for parents every program year

200

It is how we ensure playground is ready for children to enjoy outdoor play

What is Playground Safety Checklist

300
Parenting in the Real World curriculum, Conscious Discipline’s research based parenting curriculum, and Partners For Healthy Baby.
What are the resources available for family engagement
300

These agreements help Head Start enroll foster care children and families who are on public assistance.

What is child welfare agreements (those with DCF and related agencies).

300

This is used by the CM, FA and family when a child's attendance falls below 90% for two months in a row

What is attendance action plan

300

Health requirements due within 90 days of enrollment where the FA and HV works with families to obtain results from pediatricians before coordinating with health specialists to complete onsite.

What is Lead and Dental

300

Requires focused attention and intentional observation of children at all times.

What is Active Supervision?

400

This happens when parents participate in home visits and parent/teacher conferences with teachers, and when parents complete at home learning activities and at home reading activities to help extend their child’s learning from the classroom to the home environment, and when parents attend different workshops to increase their knowledge and skills.

What is Parent’s engagement as their children’s primary teacher and nurturer and the support of that role

400

This is the name of the new agreement which will provide us with "overstock" goods in the form of a truck from Wal-Mart that we can use as in-kind.

What is Good360

400

These two things happen to ensure children are safe when they aren't in attendance.

What is calling the parents to check on child's whereabouts within an hour of the program opening then completing a home visit on day two with no contact.

400

This two things needs to happen with a parent when a child fails a screening.

What is contacting the parent to let them know of the results and continuing to follow up with parent until needed services are received.

400

Children may only be released to adults authorized by parents or legal guardians whose identity has been verified by photo identification. 

 What is Parent Contact Notebook?

500
This happens as parents complete health history and nutrition history, health and developmental screenings at enrollment and throughout the year, and when follow up is provided. All parents have access to ECS’s Health Specialist, Mental Health Specialist, Disabilities Specialist, and Nutrition Specialist as needed. This also happens as FAs ensure families are reminded of upcoming immunizations, well babies, and physicals coming due so that children stay up to date on a schedule of well child care. This also happens as families receive targeted support, resources, and training as needed.
What is parent’s engagement in health services and their ability to fully support their family’s health and well-being.
500

About $6 million

What is the amount of non-federal match ECS needs.

500

Which types of eligibility will get a family 100 points?

What is foster care, homelessness or public assistance

500

This is put in place by the MHS when a child needs support in the classroom regarding behavior or social/emotional development and this is subsequently reviewed with parents in a meeting with the FA, CM, teacher, parent, and MHS.

What is a behavior support plan

500

Organizations that serve young children have an obligation to ensure that children in their care are in healthy and safe environments, and that policies and procedures that protect children are in place

 What is our health and safety checklist?