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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  CAREGIVER

The provider of physical, emotional, and social needs to another person, often dependent and unable to provide for his or her own needs. Caregiver is the generic term used for the direct service providers in Community Care and Support Services (CCS). 		 
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  RESEARCH

For purposes of COA accreditation, all forms of internal or external research involving persons served except internal program evaluation and outcomes research, or educational projects performed by students and interns that are part of their professional training.		  
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  INFANT

A child aged one year and under.		  
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  CULTURE

The customs, habits, values, skills, technology, beliefs, and religious, social, and political behaviors of a group of people in a specific period of time.		  
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PA-ECCD 6: Quality and Stability in Relationships

 
Children experience quality and stability in relationships with caregivers and peers.

PA-ECCD 6.01

 
Each child establishes and maintains an ongoing relationship with a primary caregiver who provides frequent expressive and verbal interaction in a warm, friendly manner.
Research Note: Research presents strong evidence demonstrating a connection between the quality and stability of the teacher-child relationship and social and cognitive outcomes.

PA-ECCD 6.02

 

Each infant receives individualized, ongoing care from one person, or a consistent team, who:

  1. imitates and responds positively to the infant’s vocalizations;
  2. understands and respects the infant’s sleeping and eating habits;
  3. promptly responds to the infant’s need for comfort and relieves distress;
  4. provides reassurance, physical care, regular affection, and tactile and vocal stimulation;
  5. offers consistent repetition of daily routines, with appropriate variety and contrast;
  6. provides opportunities for developing self-concept, crawling and exploring, and musical stimulation; and
  7. promotes development of fine and gross motor skills through pushing, grabbing, throwing, mouthing, and kicking.
NA The agency does not provide infant care.

PA-ECCD 6.03

 

Caregivers act as role models and promote social development by:

  1. supporting children in the development of friendships and other forms of positive group interaction;
  2. treating children equally and celebrating the culture and backgrounds of all children;
  3. setting clear limits for appropriate and safe behavior and encouraging the child’s ability to control and accept responsibility for their behavior;
  4. helping each child appropriately express emotions and resolve conflicts;
  5. treating the child’s family with respect and involving the child in communication with the family whenever possible; and
  6. using everyday activities such as dressing, eating, and toileting to foster the development of social skills.
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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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