ERSEA Certification

Six courses make up this certification. We establish important ERSEA foundation areas in ChildPlus. Solutions are presented and discussed for the typical ERSEA workday challenges.

ERSEA Certification Overview

In each individual unit, content is presented in video format and supported through additional written materials which can include worksheets, activities, assignments, Head Start resources and reports in ChildPlus. 

All units in this certification include information about the Office of Head Start’s ERSEA Assessment Tool designed to help identify ways to improve your program’s ERSEA services.

All units in the ERSEA Online Program are released at the course start date. There is no required order to complete the units if you are working towards Subject Matter Expert (SME).

For Certification, the unit order is below.

 

  • Eligibility 
  • Recruitment 
  • Application 
  • Enrollment 
  • Selection 
  • Attendance

COURSES

The following courses are included in the ERSEA Online Program:

ELIGIBILITY

  • Identify the areas in ChildPlus that impact the components of eligibility
  • Examine the definitions of family
  • Determine the areas of program setup that influence eligibility
  • Review the nuances of eligibility sets
  • Recognize the items that fall outside the norm and develop a strategy for implementation
  • Discover reports to aide with eligibility

RECRUITMENT

  • Distinguish reports identifying families
  • Locate Community Resources to support families and apply details for easier selection
  • Critique the agency recruitment planning and appraise the effectiveness of the entire cycle

APPLICATION

  • Describe application options available across platforms
  • Evaluate application statuses for follow-up and completion
  • Setup required, recommended, and agency-specific fields in applications
  • Define data entry defaults and system preferences used to support data entry
  • Update family information in application to reflect changes in family structure.

ENROLLMENT

  • Define enrollment definitions and how they will be used in data entry practices at your agency
  • Create, edit, and manage participation records
  • Identify possible enrollment change scenarios and develop a process for management
  • Pinpoint tools in ChildPlus to assist with quick and efficient data entry
  • Prepare ChildPlus database for next program term rollover
  • Monitor various stages of the enrollment process to inform agency workers and stakeholders of progress
  • Navigate transition processes for Early Head Start to Head Start and Head Start to Kindergarten.

SELECTION

  • Explain the value of reports for the agency selection procedures
  • Demonstrate Entry Express for optimal data entry
  • Prepare classrooms to contain the appropriate participants
  • Evaluate agency systems for returning participants

ATTENDANCE

  • Describe the attendance options and benefits of each in ChildPlus
  • Monitor and track attendance data by utilizing ChildPlus reports
  • Setup attendance and CACFP defaults to align with identified program term
  • Define attendance system preferences for Entry Express and Attendance Scanning
  • Utilize tools to maximize functionality of Attendance module

BENEFITS

  • Become a subject matter expert or get certified
  • Based on course selection, learn specific troubleshooting skills
  • Resolve the most common problems based on the subject matter
  • Information can be disseminated to various staff members for improved processes or cleaner data collection

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

For any one of the courses, complete all the requirements and pass the quizzes and/or exams and you will receive a written Subject Matter Expert verification. All requirements must be met within the specified time frame

CERTIFICATION

For certification, an individual must take all of the units in the ERSEA Online Program.

A certificate is issued upon completion of all requirements including passing quizzes/exams or the completion of a final project. All requirements must be met within the specified time frame.

Details for each unit in the ERSEA Online  Program can be reviewed in theUnits tab.

PRICE OF CERTIFICATION*

$4,499

*Certification requires the same individual take all six units

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