TJB policies, protocols, and practices in place to prevent spread of Illness & Covid.
We remain deeply committed to supporting your child’s social, emotional, and mental health. We will continue working with illness & covid protocols in mind to find ways to meet children’s social and emotional needs, while keeping everyone as safe as possible.
Health Screenings Before Entry
Each person should do a health screening before entering the facility. The Centers for Disease Control uses 100 degrees as their definition for “fever”. Our experience has shown that children can be sick, contagious, not feeling well, etc. at temperatures below 100 degrees. We will be using 100.0 degrees as the benchmark for when a child/teacher should stay home/be sent home (unless a child has been highly active just prior to having their temperature taken, in which case, we’ll wait for several minutes, let them child cool down, and then retake their temperature). As part of the sign in process we will be asking parents a series of questions, designed to rule out illness in your child.
Health Exclusion Guidelines
To protect the safety of everyone in our community, we will have a strict illness policy. Parents should conduct their own health screening (including a temperature check), on self and on child, at home each morning before leaving for school. Parents should closely monitor, their children and any members of their family (or anyone with whom their child comes into contact).
Covid Guidelines
Based on the CDC’s current list of symptoms of COVID and recommendations from Public Health and Child Care Licensing, we will be asking anyone with COVID related symptoms to stay home. Teachers, children, and parents should stay home, even if they have mild symptoms.
Staffing While Illness is Present
We strive for our teachers to work with one group of children only to minimize cross-contact. We use substitute teachers/floaters when available. We limit teachers movement between groups as much as possible. This may present challenges if teachers become sick. If a teacher has any symptoms of fever and respiratory illness, they will have to self-isolate for a minimum of 3-5 days (see illness policy below). Teachers may need to stay home to care for their own children or other family members who become sick. There may be days when we don’t have enough teacher coverage. We will do our best to avoid this, but there may, unfortunately, be days when we reduce the number of hours we are open, ask certain groups to stay home or close the Center per LA County Health Dept.
Masks
If you are ill/recently exposed to Covid/currently testing positive we require anyone on campus to wear a face mask while picking up/dropping off.
TJB reserves the right to require masks be worn on campus during peak illness season or based on CA Public Health Department recommendations.
It is not recommended for children under 2 years of age wear masks per the CDC best practices.
TJB staff may wear masks while at the Center, balancing health and safety.
Frequent Hand-washing and Disinfecting
We always practice frequent and proper handwashing, ourselves and with the children. Hand washing must be at least 20 seconds long and we will count with the children to help them learn this routine.
There will be ongoing disinfecting of toys, tables, surfaces, etc. throughout the day, and a disinfection of the whole Center overnight by our cleaning crew daily.