Participants in Managing Comprehensive Health & Nutrition in Head Start, Early Head Start, Migrant & AIAN refine their management skills, garner updated information, and gain insight into current medical health, mental health, nutrition, and dental health practices for early childhood programs and the Head Start/Early Head Start/Migrant & Seasonal Head Start/American Indian and Alaska Native setting. They also learn to effectively monitor classrooms for health and safety and explore solutions to the tough issues facing programs today, such as the perfect PIR, short- and long-term exclusion, role of health and nutrition in school readiness goals, special diets, incomplete physical examinations, and inadequate numbers of providers willing to work with young children (more)
Learning Outcomes
▪ Participants will better understand the roles of federal mandates such as the Revised Head Start Performance Standards, updated USDA regulations, state requirements, and the Office of Head Start’s Early Learning Outcomes Framework in the provision of comprehensive health and nutrition services.
▪ Participants will recognize the value of an integrated team-approach in delivering quality, sustainable health services.
▪ Participants will identify required services and best practice concepts and explore strategies to address barriers and challenges affecting service delivery.
▪ Participants will expand their knowledge of appropriate, credible resources and develop a network of associates for continued sharing.
▪ Participants will be able to explain the essential role of comprehensive health and nutrition service delivery in positively impacting child outcomes and school readiness goals for children aged birth to five and their families.
| ▪ | Participants will better understand the roles of federal mandates such as the Revised Head Start Performance Standards, updated USDA regulations, state requirements, and the Office of Head Start’s Early Learning Outcomes Framework in the provision of comprehensive health and nutrition services. |
| ▪ | Participants will recognize the value of an integrated team-approach in delivering quality, sustainable health services. |
| ▪ | Participants will identify required services and best practice concepts and explore strategies to address barriers and challenges affecting service delivery. |
| ▪ | Participants will expand their knowledge of appropriate, credible resources and develop a network of associates for continued sharing. |
| ▪ | Participants will be able to explain the essential role of comprehensive health and nutrition service delivery in positively impacting child outcomes and school readiness goals for children aged birth to five and their families. |
