Program Governance
State of New Hampshire platform used to process and track employees eligibility for employment based on their Criminal Back Ground information.
What is New Hampshire Connections Information System (NHCIS)?
Tool used to ensure that teachers use ongoing child-level assessment data when developing classroom plans.
What is the Outcomes Analysis Form?
Document that must be on file in the program on the child's first day of attendance in order to ensure children are up-to-date on a schedule of age appropriate preventive and primary medical care.
What are Child Immunization Records?
Document on file that ensures nutrition staff individualize meals for children with allergies.
What is a Special Meals Prescription?
W-2's, 12 months of pay stubs, SNAP card, Individual Declaration, SSI/ SSDI documents.
What are documents used to verify eligibility at the time of application?
An annual process that focuses on internal factors like ongoing monitoring data, and supports the continuous quality improvement process and goal planning for our agency.
What is Self Assessment?
Is used to ensure that all classrooms are organized learning environments that promotes healthy development, children’s skill growth aligned with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and are inclusive for students of all abilities.
What is the Physical Environmental Checklist?
Document that must be on file within 60 days of child's first day of attendance to help ensure that children are up-to-date on a schedule of age-appropriate preventive and primary medical care.
What is Child Health Record/ Physical?
The USDA program that aims to improve the health and nutrition of children in the program while promoting the development of good eating habits through nutrition education, each child's enrollment form must be completed prior to being served a meal.
What is the Child and Adult Food Care Program?
Allowable percentage of children enrolled in the program above the income threshold.
What is 10%?
A group of Head Start parents and community members, elected by the families of Head Start students, who help lead and make decisions about their program.
What is Policy Council?
The three tools used to design the Physical Environment Checklist.
What are CLASS, T-POT, and The Creative Curriculum Fidelity Guide?
Location of documentation ensuring that children receive ongoing health related follow-up and care for failed assessments or concerns documented on a Well Child Check.
What is in the Health Section of Child Plus?
The number of hours required between meals so that they meet the USDA/ CACFP food pattern requirements.
What is 2.5
Assessment completed twice a year that supports family goal-setting and tracking family strengths, needs, and progress towards goals.
What is the Family Needs Assessment?
Provides Head Start programs with a mechanism for ensuring programs remain responsive to the needs of the children and families they serve, providing a starting point for understanding community strengths and identifying gaps in services.
What is the Community Assessment?
The developmentally appropriate, research-based tools our agency uses to ensure that teaching practices focus on achieving progress in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (HSELOF).
What is Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold?
Checklist preformed monthly to ensure that indoor and outdoor learning environments, equipment, and materials are safe and free of environmental toxins.
What is the Health and Safety Screener?
The minimum ounces of milk that must be served to a classroom of 16 children.
What is 16 ounces?
The research based curriculum implemented by Family Workers to support parents in strengthening parenting skills.
What is Positive Solutions?
A committee working in partnership with families and community health organizations to help programs make decisions about health services.
What is Health Services Advisory Committee?
Teachers observe and assess students using Teaching Strategies Gold, using that data Teachers develop plans for children's progress
What is Individualization for students using child assessment data?
The number of times a drinking water source must test below 5 parts per billion when screened for lead according to New Hampshire House Bill 1421.
What is three times, which each test being more than six months apart?
A child attending a program that operates for fewer than six hours per day receives meals and snacks that provide this percentage range of the child’s daily nutritional needs.
What is 1/3- 1/2 of their daily nutritional needs?
The team charged with developing partnerships with families to build financial capabilities in order to support family wellbeing.
What is the Economic Mobility Team?