Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 892.1 - LICENSING OF GROUP CHILD CARE CENTERS AND GROUP CHILD CARE HOMES (REPEALED)
Subchapter 3 - PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Section 17-892.1-13 - Program provisions

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-892.1-13

Current through November, 2024

The program conducted in the facility shall provide for staff supervision at all times and an environment and experiences which are aimed at promoting the individual child's physical, intellectual, emotional, and social well-being and growth. This shall be done in the following ways:

(1) The child care director shall provide the department with a brief written description of the facility's program goals and how the daily activities of the center satisfy the physical, intellectual, emotional, social development, and well-being of the child;

(2) Activities which promote physical development shall include:

(A) Daily opportunities for running, climbing, and other vigorous physical activities;

(B) Varied physical activities; and

(C) Opportunities for children to learn about the health, development, and care of the children's bodies, including exercise, nutrition, and hygiene;

(3) Programs to promote intellectual development shall:

(A) Provide that a variety of learning materials are introduced and are available to the children; and

(B) Include first-hand experiences for children to learn about the world;

(4) Programs to promote emotional development shall provide that:

(A) There are opportunities for individual self-expression;

(B) Each child is recognized as an individual;

(C) The child is afforded constructive guidance and the setting of clear-cut limits which foster the child's ability to be self-disciplined;

(D) Each child's personal privacy is respected;

(E) Providers shall not use:
(i) Physical punishment, or

(ii) Methods of influencing behavior which are frightening, humiliating, damaging, or injurious to the child's health or self-esteem; and

(F) Providers respect each child's cultural, ethnic, and family background, as well as the child's primary language or dialect;

(5) Programs to promote social development shall provide that:

(A) Children are guided in developing and working out ways of getting along with each other;

(B) Providers interact with the children in ways which emphasize and foster attitudes of mutual respect between adults and children; and

(C) Providers behave in ways which help the children develop attitudes of respect for all other persons as individuals and develop an appreciation of cultural and ethnic diversity;

(6) The activities and experiences provided by the program are appropriate to the developmental level of the children;

(7) The program encourages the development of the children's special interests and abilities;

(8) The program provides a balance of active and quiet activities; and

(9) The program shall provide for the self-direction of the children by:

(A) Affording children opportunities to choose activities according to personal desires and interests and to move from one activity to another;

(B) Encouraging children to do things independently; and

(C) Providing children opportunities to be involved in decision making about group and individual pactivities.

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