certification

ERSEA

In each individual unit, content is presented in video format and supported through additional written materials which can include worksheets, activities, assignments, Head Start resources and reports in ChildPlus.  

All units in this certification include information about the Office of Head Start’s ERSEA Assessment Tool designed to help identify ways to improve your program’s ERSEA services. 
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Certification Information
Learning Objectives
Units
  • Eligibility
  • Recruitment
  • Application
  • Selection
  • Enrollment
  • Attendance
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CEU
4.7 CEUs
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Adult, Administrators and Managers 
Estimated hours per unit
Eligibility - 7
Recruitment - 4
Application - 14
Selection - 5 
Enrollment - 12
Attendance -5

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Eligibility
  • Identify the areas in ChildPlus that impact the components of eligibility
  • Examine the definitions of family
  • Determine the areas of program setup that influence eligibility
  • Review the nuances of eligibility sets
  • Recognize the items that fall outside the norm and develop a strategy for implementation
  • Discover reports to aide with eligibility
recruitment 
  • Distinguish reports identifying families
  • Locate Community Resources to support families and apply details for easier selection
  • Critique the agency recruitment planning and appraise the effectiveness of the entire cycle
application
  • Describe application options available across platforms
  • Evaluate application statuses for follow-up and completion
  • Setup required, recommended, and agency-specific fields in applications
  • Define data entry defaults and system preferences used to support data entry
  • Update family information in application to reflect changes in family structure
enrollment
  • Define enrollment definitions and how they will be used in data entry practices at your agency
  • Create, edit, and manage participation records
  • Identify possible enrollment change scenarios and develop a process for management
  • Pinpoint tools in ChildPlus to assist with quick and efficient data entry
  • Prepare ChildPlus database for next program term rollover
  • Monitor various stages of the enrollment process to inform agency workers and stakeholders of progress
  • Navigate transition processes for Early Head Start to Head Start and Head Start to Kindergarten
Selection
  • Explain the value of reports for the agency selection procedures
  • Demonstrate Entry Express for optimal data entry
  • Prepare classrooms to contain the appropriate participants
  • Evaluate agency systems for returning participants
attendance
  • Describe the attendance options and benefits of each in ChildPlus
  • Monitor and track attendance data by utilizing ChildPlus reports
  • Setup attendance and CACFP defaults to align with identified program term
  • Define attendance system preferences for Entry Express and Attendance Scanning
  • Utilize tools to maximize functionality of Attendance module

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