If your child becomes ill or has an accident during center hours, every effort will be made to contact you so that you can make necessary arrangements for your child. If you cannot be reached, a staff member will call the person you gave as an emergency contact. If you and the emergency contact are not available a staff member will make arrangements to provide medical treatment, if necessary.

When your child is absent due to illness that is not contagious or communicable he or she may return within three (3) days with a note from the parent or guardian. If the illness requires more than a three (3) day absence, a note from your doctor is required to return to his/her Head Start Center.

If the absence is due to a communicable disease a note from your doctor is mandatory regardless to the number of days out of school.

A note from your doctor is required documenting any special diet, allergies, restrictions, or recommendations at any given time in order to be followed by our program.

If your child is absent for any other reason the teacher must be notified by phone or in writing.

Your child will be excluded from Head Start if he or she has symptoms of any of the following:-

· Severe pain or discomfort

· Diarrhea

· Elevated temperature of 100.4º or over along with lethargy

· Sore throat or severe coughing

· Difficult or rapid breathing

· Skin rashes

· Ring worm

· Weeping or bleeding skin lesions that have not been treated by a physician

· Two or more episodes of vomiting within a period of 24 hours

· Swollen joints

· Yellow eyes or yellow (jaundiced) skin

· Stiff neck

· Blood in urine

· Infected or untreated skin patches

· Lice

Your child will automatically be excluded for communicable diseases (including but not limited to the following list) until a return to school notification is submitted to the Health Manager from the treating physician: