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school-age children in all CCDF-eligible regulated (but not licensed) informal in-home care providers and are found in the Health & Safety Standards for Informal Providers Appendix HH.

A. Activities (1) Providers should provide a daily planned program of varied and developmentally appropriate activities that promote the social, emotional, [JB34.1]physical, cognitive, language and literacy development of each child. Staff should use a variety of teaching methods to accommodate the needs of the children's different learning styles. (2) Individual Attention. Personnel shall provide individual attention to each child as evidenced by: (a) Responding promptly to the child's distress signals and need for comfort. (b) Playing with and talking to the children. (c) Providing and assisting the child with personal care in a manner appropriate to the child's age level, i.e., providing the child privacy in dressing, diapering and toileting functions as the developmental age of the child dictates.

O. Staff Training (2) Health and Safety Orientation. Each Informal Provider, Employees, and Provisional Employees with direct care responsibilities shall complete health and safety orientation training within the first 90 days of employment. The state-approved training hours obtained will count toward required annual training hours. The training must address the following health and safety topics: (k) Child Development to include all major domains: cognitive; social and emotional; physical development and motor skills; communication, language, and literacy; and approaches to play and learning.

(3) Ongoing Training (a) Every calendar year after the first year of employment, the Provider,