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Department of Family and Support Services

Transportation Plan

• Transportation Plan should reflect:A.WhoB.What B. WhenC. How Often

Transportation 1310 Example:• Indigo is responsible for scheduling our Transportation training.• Pedestrian training takes place 30 days after

the beginning of each school year. • Field trips are scheduled each quarter• Evacuation drills occur during each field trip• A binder is kept to document evacuation drills

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Head Start programs are not required to providetransportation services, however, there are a few key transportation regulations that grantee and delegate agencies are required to comply with.

Transportation 1310• According to CFR 45 1310, Head Start

programs are required to:• Assist parents to arrange transportation • Provide pedestrian and riding safety

education within 30 days (including EHS and Home base programs).

• Release children only to individuals who have been authorized in writing

• Recruitment materials informing parents that transportation services are not available.

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The training requirements for parents andchildren are to be conducted within the first 30days of enrollment to include:• Vehicle evacuation drills/year • Danger zones around vehicle • Pedestrian safety training • Classroom activities • Safe riding, boarding, and crossing.

Transportation 1310Policies: a. Created out of written plansb.Should reflect each otherResources:• Forms from this webinar uploaded on

Children Services Website• PDM Support Services Coordinators• http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc• earline.alexander@cityofchicago.org

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• Field Trips:

Transportation Services (45 CFR 1310.3) are defined in the regulation as "the planned transporting of children to and from sites where an agency provides services funded under the Head Start Act”.

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• Field Trips:

Transportation services can involve the pick-up and discharge of children at regularly scheduled times and pre-arranged sites, including trips between children's homes and program settings." Field trips are pre-planned and pre-arranged, and children are receiving direct component services.

Transportation 1310Field Trips:• Should be educational and age appropriate• Can be in walking distance of site• Harnesses are already on buses upon arrival• Bus capacity is 40 children and 6-8 adults• Field trip form should be e-mailed to me• Teachers and other agency staff serve as bus

monitors

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Field Trips and Plan Seating:

• Children with special needs• Children with behavior needs• Quickly Evacuate• Bus driver, staff, parents, volunteers are

aware• EHS Seating

Transportation 1310Evacuation Drills

Transportation 1310Bus Evacuation Drills • 1312.21 a(5)(2) states that two drills are

conducted per year in addition to one drill conducted on the vehicle the child will be riding

• To include one front (side) and one back.• Prearrange your drill with transportation

company• Cost efficient when you conduct two drills at

the end of your trip

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Evacuation Drills:• All children restrained in a child restraint

system (CRS) • Compliance with FMVSS NO. 213 • Appropriate to height and weight of the child • Proper installation• Children are not to remove themselves from

the harnesses

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Ammons Transportation Company• YMCA Salvation Army• C. Commons Trinity United• CPS Chinese American• ALC Dorothy Sutton• CNH First Church• C. Colleges Korean American• Easter Seals South Central• LSSI Beacon Therapeutic• Mary Crane• Chicago Child Care Society• Hekteon Institute

Transportation 1310Illinois Student Transportation• CYC MFS• El Valor St. Augustine• CPS Albany Park• Carole R. Church of God• C. State El Hogar• E. House Healing Temple• Gads Hill North Avenue• H. House S. Shore United

Transportation 1310A & M Transportation Company• Ada S. McKinley Onward House• HBH Trinity Resources• CPS Appeals• C. Charities Community

Learning• C. House Family Rescue• Firman Howard Area• Home of Life Northwestern• Marcy Newberry Westside Holistic

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Also on this Website under Education view the

PowerPoint on “Transportation and Pedestrian Safety”