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Following health and safety best practices is an important way to provide quality early care and education for young children. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education (NRC) have released the Fourth Edition of Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs. These national standards represent the best evidence, expertise, and experience in the country on quality health and safety practices and policies that should be followed in today's early care and education settings.

The DOD Child Abuse Hotline Poster shall be posted in a location that is visible to staff and parents. This includes in the lobby of all CYP facilities, on every classroom parent information board, at all FCC homes, and in or near the School Liaison office (if the office is located outside of a CYP facility).

These documents are used by the CNIC CYP Inspection Team upon arrival to an installation for the annual HQ inspection.

This is the Navy Youth Sports Fitness Equipment - Field / Facility Safety Checklist.

A sample format to be used to request an exception to CYP. The Formal Exception Request must accompany the Plan of Action and Milestones following a CYP Inspection.

This document address questions submitted by installations after the CY24 Inspection Cycle webinar.

Commander, Navy Installations Command (CN IC) conducts annual unannounced inspections at each Navy Child and Youth Program, or CYP, worldwide as required by the Military Child Care Act of 1989 (MCAA). The goal of the inspection is to ensure all Navy CYPs are meeting the high standards of care on which Navy families have come to depend. The annual CNIC inspection determines the level of compliance with the current regulations and requirements as set forth in Navy policy. This document provides biographies of all CNIC CYP Inspection Team members.

The information contained in this document clarifies the responsibilities of Child and Youth Program (CYP)professionals administering CDH programs and provides information about the process for validating insurance coverage. This information is required to be provided to all potential and currently certified Navy CDH Providers for the purpose of notifying them about CDH liability insurance requirements.

Programs are required to notify CNIC HQ when a programΓÇÖs operating practices fall outside of current Navy CYP policies. An Operational Review process has been established to allow review of requests for programmatic changes (e.g., staffing, utilization, curriculum implementation, etc.), short-term non-critical operation outside of policy, as well as requests for Extensions to previously approved Exceptions to be submitted via the Inspection Management System (IMS).

The checklist used to list what is required on the Parent Bulletin Board.