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Education/Health
Family & Community Partnerships
Facilities, Materials, & Equipment
Human Resources
Put It All In the Soup
100
The primary source of reimbursement for meals for Head Start Children.
What is Child and Adult Care Food Program or CACFP?
100

Collaborative partnership-building with parents to establish mutal trust and to identify family goals, strengths, and necessary services and other supports.

What is and IFPA?

100
Financial assistance received by a grantee from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to administer a Head Start program pursuant to the Head Start Act.
What is a grant?
100

A partner coming alongside its community and families to build strong, healthy, life-long learners, resulting in a thriving community, whole families and tribal sovereignty for time immemorial.

What is our Mission Statement?

100

The document that you and your mentor fill out annually to make plans for your future goals.

What is a Professional Development Plan?

200
To enhance bonding and to establish a sense of security as well as to preventing choking, ear infections, or dental problems such as baby bottle tooth decay.
Why are infants held while being fed and not laid down to sleep with a bottle?
200

Parent-teacher conferences do not take the place of these.

What is a home visit?

200
Use of child-resistant covers, installation of child-protection outlets, or use of safety plugs.
What is preventing electrical shock?
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?
200
These activities are done throughout the day, art activities, sand and water play, blocks building, shape sorting, feeding, solving puzzles, exploring textures, stringing beads.
What are motor activities for preschool-age children?
300

Describes the goals for a child with disabilities during the school year and any special support needed to help achieve them.

What is an IEP?

300
Providing parents with applications for their child's home school. Inviting representatives from local schools and school of choices to speak about their programs. Taking the children on field trips to the elementary school.
What is a transistion from Head Start to Elementary School?
300

Storage of soiled diapers in containers separate from other waste. Provide a sufficient number of diaper containers to hold all of the diapers that accumulate between periods of removal from the premises. Use separately labeled containers for disposable diapers.

What are the procedures for the disposal of soiled diapers?

300

Officers, employees, or any person acting as an agent for ECLC may not accept gratuities, favors or anything of monetary value from contractors or potential contractors.

What is the Gifts/Gratuities policy?

300
Teachers acknowledge feelings, verbalize feelings, listen to all sides, anticipate and redirect challenging behavior when needed.
How do teachers engage children in problem-solving strategies and support positive guidance?
400
In this training staff will learn how to properly administer medication to children in the program.
What is Medication Administration?
400
Ensuring families meet the qualifications to enroll children in Head Start.
What is income eligibility?
400
35 square feet indoors and at least 75 square feet space per child.
What is the usable indoor and outdoor play space per child?
400
The results of this tool are used to identify staff training and professional development needs, and assist each staff member in improving his/her skills and professional competencies.
What is a Performance Appraisal?
400

15 % of Budgets can be used for this

What is the percent that can be charged to Head Start for Administrative costs?

500
Within 30 calendar days from the child's entry into the program.
What is obtaining schedules & recommendations for well child care?
500

Increasing family access to materials, services and activities essential to family literacy development and assisting parents to recognize their own literacy goals.

What is providing children and families opportunities to participate in family literacy?

500

Document with information on lockdowns, and full evacuations

What is the emergency plan?

500
This resource can help with stress and burnout along with helping plan for a party, moving, legal matters, counseling and financial matters to name a few.
What is the Employee Assistance Program or EAP?
500
Staff must report directly to their Program Director/Immediate Supervisor any suspected/reported child abuse or neglect by a parent, guardian, child, or other adult.
What steps do you take if you suspect child abuse or neglect?
600

In early childhood settings, caregivers are constantly engaged, watching, listening, and interacting with children to ensure safety and promote learning, rather than passively observing from a distance.

What is Active Supervision? 

600

Marimn and Tribal housing are examples of what?

What are community partners?

600

Menu, lesson plans, allergy alerts, and schedules are all examples of what?

What are items to be posted in classrooms?

600

Every 5 years these need to be conducted on staff

What is fingerprinting and background checks?

600

Implements various methods and approaches to build executive functioning skills and capacity of all staff members who regularly interact with children

What is mental health and Conscious Discipline?