Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety and Well- Being of Children

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• Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety and
  Well- Being of Children
• February 25, 2015

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• (6) Deficiency means
• (i) An area or areas of performance in which an
  Early Head Start or Head Start grantee agency is
  not in compliance with State or Federal
  requirements,
• including but not limited to the Head Start Act
  or one or more of the regulations under parts
  1301, 1304,1305, 1306 or 1308 of this title and
  which
• involves
• (A) A threat to the health, safety, or civil
  rights of children or staff

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• Grantee and delegate agencies must support
  social and emotional development by
• (i) Encouraging development which enhances each
  childs strengths by
• (A) Building trust
• (B) Fostering independence
• (C) Encouraging self-control by setting clear,
  consistent limits, and having realistic
  expectations

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• (D) Encouraging respect for the feelings
• and rights of others and
• (E) Supporting and respecting the home language,
  culture, and family composition of each child in
  ways that support the childs health and
  wellbeing

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• (ii) Planning for routines and transitions so
  that they occur in a timely, predictable and
  unrushed manner according to each childs needs.

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• Grantee and delegate agencies must provide for
  the
• development of each childs cognitive and
  language
• skills by
• (i) Supporting each childs learning, using
  various strategies including experimentation,
  inquiry, observation, play and exploration

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start Regulations
• (iii) Providing an appropriate environment and
  adult guidance for the participation of children
  with special needs.

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• Grantee and delegate agencies must provide for
  the
• development of each childs cognitive and
  language
• skills by
• (i) Supporting each childs learning, using
  various strategies including experimentation,
  inquiry, observation, play and exploration

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child Care
  
• Center Child Care Regulations
• Personal Rights/ Child Care Centers (LIC 613A)

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health,
Safety and Well- Being of Children

• Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child Care
• Center Child Care Regulations
• Are requirements that all licensed child care
  centers
• must comply in order to operate a center. Applies
  to
• each child receiving services in the child care
  center

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Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child
Care Center Child Care Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Child Care Centers
• Restraint
• Physical control practices such as holding or
  restraining of a child are prohibited in licensed
  child care facilities.
• Is a personal rights violation of Title 22,
  Regulations, Section 101223.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22
Child Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child receiving services from a Child Care
  Center shall have rights which include, but are
  not limited to, the following
• (1) To be accorded dignity in his/her personal
  relationships with staff and other persons.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22
Child Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• The adults at the center must provide each child
  with
• A secure relationship
• Receive positive emotion, sensitivity and respect
  and no detachment.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22
Child Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child shall have rights to be
• (2) accorded safe, healthful and comfortable
  accommodations, furnishings and equipment to meet
  his/her needs.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child
Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child shall have rights to be
• (3) To be free from corporal or unusual
  punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation,
  intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental
  abuse, or other actions of a punitive nature.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child
Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child shall have rights to be
• (3) including but not limited to interference
  with daily living functions, including eating,
  sleeping, or toileting or withholding of
  shelter, clothing, medication or aids to physical
  functioning.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22
Child Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Examples
• Children cannot be denied an opportunity to
• Engage in the daily program activities because
  of parents failure.
• Engage in eating lunch because they choose to
  drink all their milk first
• Remove a child from the classroom environment
  because he/she displays an inappropriate
  behavior.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child
Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child shall have rights to be
• (4) informed, and to have his/her authorized
  representative, if any, informed by the licensee
  of the provisions of law regarding complaints
  including, but not limited to, the address and
  telephone number of the complaint receiving unit
  of the licensing agency and of information
  regarding confidentiality.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22
Child Care Center
Child Care Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child shall have rights to be
• 5) To be free to attend religious services or
  activities of his/her choice and to have visits
  from the spiritual advisor of his/her choice.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22
Child Care Center Child Care
Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• (5) Attendance at religious services, either in
  or outside the facility, shall be on a completely
  voluntary basis. In Child Care Centers, decisions
  concerning attendance at religious services or
  visits from spiritual advisors shall be made by
  the parent(s), or guardian(s) of the child.

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Community Care Licensing Title 22 Child
Care Center Child Care Regulations

• Personal Rights/ Section 101223
• Each child shall
• (6) Not to be locked in any room, building, or
  facility premises by day or night.
• (7) Not to be placed in any restraining device,
  except a supportive restraint approved in advance
  by the licensing agency.

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• (iii) No child will be left alone or unsupervised
  while under their care
• (iv) Staff will use positive methods of child
  guidance and will not engage in corporal
  punishment, emotional or physical abuse, or
  humiliation.

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Risk Factors that Endanger the Health, Safety
and Well- Being of Children

• Head Start
  Regulations
• In addition, staff will not employ methods of
  discipline that involve isolation, the use of
  food as punishment or reward, or the denial of
  basic needs.

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Cognitive Development

• Cognitive development milestones are centered in
  the childs ability to think and learn.

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Cognitive Development of 3 Year Old

• Pays attention for about three minutes
• Remembers what happened yesterday
• Follows simple one-step commands

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Cognitive Development of 3 Year Old

• Cognitive development in a three-year-old isn't
  just about a child learning the alphabet or how
  to count.
• It envelops the entire learning process --
  absorbing information, yes, but also about
  asking questions, processing and understanding.

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Cognitive Development of 4 Year Old

• Four Year Olds
• Follow three instructions given all at once
• Have large vocabulary
• Want to know why and how
• Asks direct questions

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Cognitive Development of 4 Year Old

• Begin to think symbolically and learn to use
  words and pictures to represent objects.
• Tend to be very egocentric, and see things only
  from their point of view.

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Cognitive Development of 3 and 4
Year Olds

• Teachers Role

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Cognitive Development of 3 and 4 YearOlds

• As a Teacher
• Every one of your interactions with children
  holds the potential to make a positive impact on
  how children feel about themselves and about
  learning, as well as on what and how they learn.

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Cognitive Development of 3 and 4
Year Olds

• As a Teacher listen to connect with children
• Listening to children is one way if telling them
• I care about you,
• I am interested in who you are
• I want to know more about what you are doing and
  thinking

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Strategies to Enhance Childrens
Listening Skills

• Childhood is a unique and valuable stage in the
  human life cycle. Our paramount responsibility is
  to provide care and education in settings that
  are safe, healthy, nurturing, and responsive for
  each child.

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• Strategies to Avoid Violating Childrens Personal
  Rights

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Strategies to Avoid Violating Childrens
Personal Rights

• Put yourself at the childs level
• Use your real voice- focus on the child as an
  individual and have a conversation together. Use
  a tone of voice that is firm and serious
• Give a child time to gather his or her thoughts
• Convey I hear you or I see you as the child
  talks or ignores you.
• Acknowledge the childs feelings

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Strategies to Avoid Violating Childrens
Personal Rights

• Treat the child the way you want him to treat
  you and others
• Help a child feel secure by setting clear,
  realistic limits for behavior
• Manage you emotions so that you can help
  children manage theirs
• Be realistic about what you can expect from
  individual children

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Regulations

• In order to avoid violation of childrens rights
• agencies must consider
• Each agency staff receive a copy of CCL Personal
  Rights at the time of orientation.
• Ensuring that all teaching staff, supervisors
  and volunteers receive continuous training on
  Personal Rights of Children
• Training includes strategies and techniques to
  work with children with challenging behaviors.
• Embed CCL violation of Personal Rights, Head
  Start Performance Standards and Standard Code of
  Conduct language into all mental health,
  education and human resources policies and
  procedures.