No Emergency Contacts
This is going to be pretty specific, but general feedback is welcome. I work in an Early Head Start home visiting program and for some insane reason we do not collect Emergency Contact information anymore. I have a lot of concerns about this; I have brought it up with my supervisor, our health and safety manager, and HR and was shut down. We have our federal monitoring coming up in a couple weeks and as far as I know, the only thing they are looking at is our socialization procedures, which should include a safety plan. When I started and was trained, we collected emergency contact information and had to take it with us when we went on field trips and into homes. I feel like this is a violation of performance standards and common sense to no longer collect this information. We are supposed to have a trauma informed safety plan and calling DCS if a parent has a medical emergency at a play group does not seem trauma informed.
If anyone has helpful information/links, I would appreciate it.