Vehicle Evacuation Drills
Consider these strategies as you prepare for vehicle evacuation drills.
Consider these strategies as you prepare for vehicle evacuation drills.
Head Start programs that provide transportation services should consider communication skills training to increase the efficiency of their transportation staff. Program directors and transportation supervisors may use this resource to identify training issues that impact the quality of transportation services.
Outsourcing is a successful strategy for solving a variety of transportation problems. This article offers ideas that program managers and transportation coordinators can use to evaluate their cost of transportation. For example, the article suggests that partnering with a private school bus company whose expertise is pupil transportation allows the program staff to concentrate on their primary function of educating children.
When considering new vehicle purchases, program directors should understand the four basic types of buses available. Manufacturers can configure each of the four types as either a traditional school bus or as an allowable alternate vehicle (AAV). This tip sheet provides a brief description of each type.
This session uses the embedded video as the foundation for learning about an array of resources needed to support the inclusion of a child with a disability.
This session explores ideas for working together as teams to best serve infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
This session builds on earlier sessions and focuses on identifying community resources and building relationships among programs in communities.
This session is intended as the first step toward helping participants explore a vision of inclusion based on images and ideas from programs throughout the country.
Using the video Getting Services, this session reviews the processes of early identification; referral to early intervention to determine eligibility for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C services; and support to families who are accessing services.
Creating Bright Futures is intended as the first step toward helping participants think about creating a vision of what inclusion will look like in their programs and communities.