Tri-County Head Start Center

04-10 · Supervision

When leaving the classroom with the children to go out on the playground, staff left one child behind. The child was observed on classroom video to be on her own for approximately 28 minutes before a staff member returned to the classroom and brought the child out to the playground. While Tri-County Head Start has procedures requiring teachers to do roll call and headcount once they are out of the classroom, in this instance, headcount was taken on the circle rug before the children left for the playground. The floater working with the lead teacher did not do a sweep of the classroom upon leaving. There is no evidence of a roll call being taken once the group left the classroom. CCF Handbook 2.4 Supervision Section 2.4.1 General Supervision Requirements B. Child care personnel must be assigned to provide direct supervision to a specific group of children and be with that group of children at all times. Children must never be left without child care personnel supervision inside or outside the facility, in a vehicle, or at a field trip location. Provider will conduct re-training of staff on Tri-County Head Start's policies and procedures concerning Active Supervision, including requirements for transitioning children between different locations on the premises of the program. Roll Calls, Head Counts, and Sweeps of rooms after they have been vacated will be part of the training. Provider will email agenda and sign-in sheet of conducted training to the licensing office on or before 2/28/2025

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47-01 · Access/Child Safety

Child was repeatedly picked up by the arm when he kept dropping down while walking, holding a staff member's hand, resulting in a sprained wrist. Other children were pulled down hard by their jackets into bean bag chairs on the floor by the same staff member. Provider called Abuse Hotline which did not accept the report. Provider terminated staff member in question. Provider reported incident to the childcare complaint section of the DCF website

Corrected by Jan 9, 2025

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33-01 · Training Requirements

One employee with an industry start date of 10/11/22 did not complete 40 hour introductory child care training requirement. Employee should complete, test, and pass part 2 courses and director should email updated transcript to counselor no later than 3/29/24. Training monitored for 3 new employees

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