HSPPS

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

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

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.

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

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.

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:

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.

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

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

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

A program must establish goals and measureable objectives that include:

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