Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 414 - DEPARTMENT OF EARLY LEARNING AND CARE
Division 600 - RELIEF NURSERIES
Section 414-600-0061 - Coordination with the Early Learning System
Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 414-600-0061
Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) To ensure Relief Nursery programs and services are consistent with the Early Learning System created by and described in ORS 417.727 and 417.728, a Relief Nursery receiving state funds shall:
(a) Coordinate
and work collaboratively with the Regional Early Learning Hub to ensure that
the Relief Nursery's program and services are consistent and aligned with the
goals of the Early Learning System;
(b) Collaborate with the Regional Early
Learning Hub to align strategies to meet the needs of children and families in
focus populations identified by the Hub and Relief Nursery. The strategies must
take into account the Relief Nursery's capacity, community priorities,
initiatives and opportunities, and available resources; and
(c) Coordinate with the Regional Early
Learning Hub, health, human and other early learning programs to plan, develop
and implement an early childhood system of supports and services to achieve
positive outcomes for focus populations, maximize the effective use of
available resources and avoid duplication of services.
(2) For the purposes of this section "Focus Populations" means children or families with a child or children who are at risk of entering foster care due to multiple factors, including but not limited to:
(a) Living in a household that is at or
near poverty, as determined under federal poverty guidelines;
(b) Living in inadequate or unsafe
housing;
(c) Having inadequate
nutrition;
(d) Living in a
household where there is significant or documented domestic conflict,
disruption or violence;
(e) Having
a parent who suffers from mental illness, who engages in substance abuse or who
experiences a developmental disability or an intellectual disability;
(f) Living in circumstances under which there
is neglectful or abusive care-giving;
(g) Having unmet health care and medical
treatment needs; or
(h) Having a
racial or ethnic minority status that is historically consistent with
disproportionate over-representation in academic achievement gaps or in the
systems of child welfare, foster care or juvenile or adult
corrections.
(3) OARN shall notify the Department of any changes in leadership, budget or location of any Relief Nursery.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 326.425(7)
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 417.788 & ORS 417.786
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