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If your child will be absent due to illness, please call the center to notify us. If your child contracts a communicable disease, please notify us so that we may inform staff and other parents to watch for symptoms. To maintain consistent staffing, your account will still be billed for your usually scheduled hours. When you have prior knowledge that your child will have an extended absence due to illness (i.e., scheduled hospitalization), please contact the Moss Street to see about possible reductions in payment.

 

RELEASE OF THE CHILD

Occasionally, due to unforeseen circumstances, parents may be unable to pick up their children as scheduled. Please remember we will normally only release children to individuals authorized on your Information and Authorization form. The adults on this list will be asked to show photo identification. Only the parent/s with legal guardian ship can authorize or edit the Pick-up authorization list.

In an emergency, parent with physical custody can authorize adults to pick up their child on a one-time basis. If at all possible, this authorization should be in writing. We will not release children to unauthorized individuals.

Occasionally, parents or other authorized individuals arrive intoxicated, emotionally distraught, or demonstrate in other ways (in the judgment of the staff) that they are temporarily unable to appropriately care for a child. In these circumstances, staff discourages pick up and assists in arranging alternatives.

If an individual deemed temporarily unable to appropriately care for a child persists in their desire to remove a child, staff will inform the University Office of Public Safety and/ or the police to determine whether additional action is necessary to protect the child. We take our moral and legal obligation to protect children very seriously. Also, please see the transportation agreement for children who receive Moss St. transportation after school.

 

MEDICATION

The center may administer medication only with written permission from parents. Medication must be in the original container, clearly marked as to the type of medication contained and the correct dosage. Each day that the medication is required, parents must fill out and sign the Medicine Chart located in or near the kitchen of the child's classroom.

Some allergies may require an allergy plan on file prior to program participation.  Moss Street does not have
Epi Pens on site for general emergency use.  Staff is trained and prepared to administer child specific Epi Pens for children with allergy plans when necessary and directed by paramedics.