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Your Child’s Social-Emotional Well-Being and Behavior Guidance in Child Care

Child Care Policies on Suspensions and Expulsions

Licensed Child Care Centers must have policies in place regarding guidance, positive instruction, supporting positive child behavior, and discipline and consequences. These policies must identify how the Child Care Center will:

  • Access an early childhood mental health consultant or other specialist, as needed.
  • Create and maintain a socially and emotionally respectful early learning and care environment.
  • Cultivate positive child, staff, and family relationships.
  • Implement teaching strategies supporting positive behavior, pro-social peer interaction, and overall social and emotional competence in young children.
  • Provide individualized social and emotional intervention supports for children who need them, including methods for understanding child behavior and developing, adopting, and implementing a team-based positive behavior support plan with the intent to reduce challenging behavior and prevent suspensions and expulsions.

Child Care Centers must also have policies in place defining how decisions are made and what steps are taken prior to the suspension, expulsion, or request to parents or guardians to withdraw a child from care due to concerns about the child’s behavioral issues.

Procedures must be consistent with the center’s policy on guidance, positive instruction, discipline, and consequences, and include documentation of the steps taken to understand and respond to challenging behavior.

Early Childhood Mental Health Specialists can be part of the team that works together with programs to improve social and emotional environments and relationships, and support children who are exhibiting challenging behavior.

Universal Preschool (UPK) Colorado
Universal Preschool (UPK) Colorado allows families to choose the right setting for their child, whether it is in a licensed community-based, school-based or home-based preschool setting. Families of children in the year before they are eligible for kindergarten, and qualifying 3-year-olds, are able to apply for UPK Colorado.
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