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Orientation scheduled for May will be rescheduled for a new set of dates. Please stay tuned for the new dates.

To: ACHR CDP Parents and Staff

From: Natalie Stephens RD LD, Health Services Coordinator

            With the Early/Head Start Management Team

Re: Masking at our Centers

Date:  April 8, 2022

Starting Monday, April 11, 2022, masking for children 2 years old and older will be optional in our centers.  The threshold used to determine the indoor mask requirement is based on a delta point of 0.5% of each center’s student and staff population.

All adults who enter the centers will be required to continue to mask at this time.

Per procedures, the Health Services Coordinator is notified of anyone who becomes COVID positive.  ACHR staff will remain vigilant in maintaining a safe school environment.  Please notify the Health Services Coordinator of any COVID positives to help us continue to make informed decisions.  If any center’s positivity rate reaches above the threshold of 0.5%, masks again will be required.

If a parent wants a child to mask at the center and/or on the bus, the parent should send the child in a mask; we will keep extra.

You may get a copy of the official memo at your child’s Head Start center or you can download it here.

Attention King Center Parents: King center Head Start is closing starting 1/12/22 through 1/14 (due to COVID related staffing issues. If your child has been directly exposed to COVID, your were notified previously. Please continue to follow us on facebook for updates on when this center will be opening. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this global pandemic.

Attention Edelman Center Parents: UPDATE:Edelman center Head Start will remain closed through 1/24/22 (due to COVID related staffing issues. ). We will reopen for regular operations on Tuesday 1/25/22. If your child has been directly exposed to COVID, your were notified previously. Please continue to follow us on facebook for updates on when this center will be opening. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this global pandemic.

1/11/21

Attention Edelman Center Parents:

Edelman center is closing starting 1/12/21 (includes Early Head Start /Head Start/ Wrap) due to COVID related staffing issues.

If your child has been directly exposed to COVID, your were notified previously.

We will stay closed at least until Friday 12/14. Please continue to follow us on facebook for updates on when this center will be opening.

We will reevaluate then to see if we will be able to open on 1/18/21 so .

Thank you for your understanding and patience during this global pandemic.

1/8/22

Attention Darden Center Parents: Due to a number of COVID cases and related issues, All of Darden Center (Early Head Start, Head Start, WRAP, Afterschool) will be closed starting Monday January 10 – Friday January 22.We will reopen the center for all center operations on Monday January 24, 2022.
Due to potential exposures, please quarantine your Early or Head Start child away from the Center (and any other child care center) during this time.
If your child shows any COVID symptoms, please contact your child’s Medical Provider/Pediatrician.
Teachers will be contacting parents to set up virtual Learning during this time. Please try to participate if able.
If parents need an “Exposure letter” for records, please contact your child’s teacher or we can email you one if you email natalie.stephens@achr.com
We apologize for this inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding and efforts to keep our children and Community safe during this Pandemic.

Attention Darden Classroom L parents and Parents of Bus Route 5: Potential Exposure to COVID. Classroom L and Bus Route 5 will immediately close for 14 days. Please quarantine your children at home and watch for any COVID symptoms. Class and Bus will reopen on Jan 20, 2022.

Attention Edelman Classroom F parents and Parents of Bus Route 71: Potential Exposure to COVID. Classroom F and Bus Route 71 will immediately close for 14 days. Please quarantine your children at home and watch for any COVID symptoms. Class and Bus will reopen on Jan 20, 2022.For full COVID Procedures, please go to www.achr.com

FOR FULL COVID PROCEDURES, COVID SYMPTOMS, AND BACK TO SCHOOL COVID INFORMATION, CLICK HERE

We have had a few cases of RSV at the King Center. All children were sent home from school with the following RSV letter:
“Dear Parents,
This letter is to inform you that children in your child’s center have been diagnosed with RSV. Being a virus, it is of course contagious. It is spread through the oral route (saliva, coughing, sneezing).
The affected classrooms have been thoroughly disinfected. If your child develops a cold that seems unusual or other symptoms, please take your child to your doctor. Children with this virus should stay home at least 24 hours after all symptoms are gone, or until the physician indicates the child may return to child care (per procedures).
Below is some additional information from kidshealth.org on this type of virus.
About RSVRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes infection of the lungs and breathing passages, is a major cause of respiratory illness in young children.In adults, it may only produce symptoms of a common cold, such as a stuffy or runny nose, sore throat, mild headache, cough, fever, and a general feeling of being ill. But in premature babies and kids with diseases that affect the lungs, heart, or immune system, RSV infections can lead to other more serious illnesses.RSV is highly contagious and can be spread through droplets containing the virus when someone coughs or sneezes. It also can live on surfaces (such as countertops or doorknobs) and on hands and clothing, so it can be easily spread when a person touches something contaminated.RSV can spread rapidly through schools and childcare centers. Babies often get it when older kids carry the virus home from school and pass it to them. Almost all kids are infected with RSV at least once by the time they’re 2 years old.RSV infections often occur in epidemics that last from late fall through early spring. Respiratory illness caused by RSV — such as bronchiolitis or pneumonia — usually lasts about a week, but some cases may last several weeks.Doctors typically diagnose RSV by taking a medical history and doing a physical exam. Generally, in healthy kids it’s not necessary to distinguish RSV from a common cold. But if a child has other health conditions, a doctor might want to make a specific diagnosis; in that case, RSV is identified in nasal secretions collected either with a cotton swab or by suction through a bulb syringe.
If you have any questions, please contact your child’s center or Health Staff.
Natalie Stephens RD LD CFIHealth Services Coordinator”
If you are KIng King Center parent and did not recieve a cy of this letter please contact the King Center

Registration Information for Toys for Tots 2021