SERVICE

One or more organization-operated programs or activities that have a common general objective and deploy the organization's material and human resources in a planned and systematic manner. An organization that publicly promotes or identifies itself in writing as offering a service, is licensed to deliver a service, assigns personnel and/or space to a service, or allocates financial resources to a service is considered to offer that service.		  
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  FAMILY

Two or more people who consider themselves family and who assume obligations, functions, and responsibilities generally essential to healthy family life. Child care and child socialization, income support, long-term care, and other caregiving are among the functions of family life. The definition of "family" will rest with an individual's indication of who plays a family member role, including current or former foster family, adoptive family, extended family members, fictive kin, or significant others. Organizations that believe family is the central constellation in a child's life, and that family attachments are of primary importance for human development, will strive to work with professional staff to develop a common understanding of "family."		  
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  QUALITY

In this context, the extent to which contemporary and generally recognized standards for professional practice are met and exceeded, and desirable service outcomes achieved.		  
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  PERSONNEL

The body of employees and/or volunteers that carries out the organization's tasks under the organization's administration and/or supervision. This definition does not include foster parents who are specifically referenced in relevant standards		  
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  PARENTS

Parents can include: birth, foster, kinship, and adoptive parents. Please see service standards for more specific information about use of this term. 		 
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  TRANSITIONS

In the context of out-of-school time services (OST), transitions are times when individuals or groups move from one place in the program to another. Transitions take place: (1) when individual children or youth enter or exit the program; (2) when a child or youth has finished an activity and chooses to move on to another; (3) when children and youth clean up or rearrange space to prepare for a new activity; and (4) when children and youth move from one area of the program to another (e.g., when moving from the cafeteria to the gym). 		 
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  PROGRAM

A system of services offered by an organization. For example, an organization providing a mental health service may offer several mental health programs to different populations, e.g., a mental health program for adolescent teens. The word "program" can be used interchangeably with the word "service" or to describe specific programs.		  
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  TERMINATION

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  CASE

A general term used to designate clients (including individuals, families, and groups) served by an organization for purposes of monitoring the provision of services. A foster care case is generally based on the placement of an individual child, although casework for the child may include services to the child's family. A child protective services case is based on an entire family household if a family assessment model is used; otherwise a case is defined as a child.		  
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Early Child Care and Development Services; Child Care Centers; Family Child Care Homes
  
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ECCD 11: Transition

 
Personnel work with parents to plan for orderly transitions.

ECCD 11.01

 

When the child needs to transition to school or another program, personnel:

  1. engage parents in a discussion of the child’s developmental needs and most suitable options;
  2. provide parents with general information on the transition and enrollment process; and
  3. share information with other providers to facilitate an orderly transition.

ECCD 11.02

 
Collaborating service providers are notified when the child transitions to another school, program, or care at home.

ECCD 11.03

 
When a person's third-party benefits or payments end, the organization determines its responsibility to provide services until appropriate arrangements are made and, if termination or withdrawal of service is probable due to non-payment, the organization works with the person or family to identify other service options.
Interpretation: The organization must determine on a case-by-case basis its responsibility to continue providing services to persons whose third-party benefits have ended and who are in critical situations.
NA The organization does not receive third-party benefits or payments for service.

ECCD 11.04

 
When a child is asked to leave the program, parents receive a written reason with sufficient notice, and the organization makes every effort to link the family with appropriate services.
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PURPOSE: Early Child Care and Development Services meet family needs for high quality child care and ensure child development, health, and safety.
 
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