Briefing ID #: 15964 - Miami-Dade County Public …

1 Briefing ID #: 15964 SELECTED K-8/ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS/APs: Maintenance of Safe and Healthy Head Start/Early Head Start Environments Category: Audience: Principals/APs (Elementary) Due Date: Aug 22, 2014 Meeting Date: n/a Attachment(s): To inform principals with Head Start/Early Head Start Programs of the required procedures to complete and submit the health and safety assessment. Maintaining environments that are both healthy and safe is a top priority of Head Start/Early Head Start Programs. To ascertain compliance with Head Start Standard , schools must complete a monthly health and safety assessment of each classroom where Head Start/Early Head Start services are provided.

2 School principals are asked to complete and submit the first health and safety assessment via e-mail to Ms. Katrina Vasquez, Head Start Health Coordinator at before August 22, 2014. Subsequent monthly health and safety assessments must be completed by the principal s designee and filed in each Head Start/Early Head Start teacher s data binder. The attached Head Start/Early Head Start health and safety checklists must be used to complete the health and safety assessment of each classroom. Non-compliance items must be addressed immediately. Head Start/Early Head Start programs will be subject to unannounced health and safety monitoring visits from the Department of Health and Human Services and Miami-Dade County .

3 Any outstanding non-compliance item, at the time of a federal/ County health and safety monitoring visit, will require a corrective action plan to be submitted to the Office of Early Childhood Programs. For additional information please contact Torres, Head Start/Early Head Start Supervisor at 305 995-7615. Contact: Dr. Maria T. Riestra-Quintero, Executive Director ( 305 995 7689 ) Department: Office of Early Childhood Programs