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Programs must ensure all staff adhere to Standards of Conduct to ensure staff do not:

Use or withhold food as a punishment or reward

Use isolation to discipline a child

Use corporal punishment

Use toilet training to punish, demean, or humiliate a child

All of the above

A program must ensure a newly hired employee, consultant, or contractor does not have unsupervised access to children until what is complete?

Submission of their hiring status to the Regional Office

The complete background check process

A minimum of three professional references have been checked

Child Abuse and Positive Discipline training

In a home based option a program does not need to have any staff who speak the home language of children, even if a majority of enrolled children speak a language other than English.

True

False

A program must ensure Home Visitors providing home-based education services have:

An Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education

A minimum of a home-based CDA Credential

5 years of experience working with children and families

A professional Development Plan showing they are currently working towards a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education

A program must ensure all staff, consultants, and contractors have sufficient knowledge, training and experience, and competencies to fulfill their rolls and responsibilities. If an individual meets the minimum education requirements for their positions the program does NOT need to provide ongoing training and professional development.

True

False

Staff responsible for management and oversight of family services, health services, and services to children with disabilities hired after 11/7/16 must have a minimum of:

An Associates in a related field

Five years experience working in a related position

5 years Head Start experience

A Bachelor's degree in a related field

A program must implement a systemic approach to staff training and professional development. This system must include training for child and family services staff on best practices for implemening family engagement strategies in a systemic way.

True

False

A program must implement a research based, coordinated coaching strategy for education staff that:

Provides opportunities for intensive coaching to education staff indentifed with a need

Aligns with the program's school readiness goals

Assesses all eduation staff to identify strengths and needs

All of the above

All new staff members must undergo an inital health examination and a re-evaluation every five years

True

False

Once a volunteer has undergone all required criminal background checks and health examinations they can be left alone to care for children.

True

False

A program must establish goals and measureable objectives that include:

A revision every program year

Goals to address parents path to self sufficiency

Alignment with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework

Approval by the Regional Office Program Specialsit

Child-level assessment data must be aggregated and analyzed at least four times per year

True

False

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