The Office of Early Childhood will host a webinar Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 2 pm. with officials from the Department of Public Health to discuss the need to continue following COVID-19 health and safety guidelines in child care settings.  DPH will provide lessons learned from real-life anonymous examples of COVID-19 cases among child care programs.

OEC Hosts DPH at 2 p.m. on April 8, 2021
Join the webinar

Note that there’s no registration and you won’t receive any reminders. Just use the link above on the date and time to join. The OEC will offer subtitles in Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.  They will post a Spanish interpretation of the meeting on their website with all of their other webinars at https://www.ctoec.org/covid-19/webinars/.

The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood has launched a new webpage to share information about the Federal COVID-19 relief funds to support Connecticut child care programs https://www.ctoec.org/covid-19/federal-relief-funding-for-providers/.  This page will be OEC’s main source of information for providers regarding the implementation of these funds. They urge you to check this page regularly for updates.

The OEC has also made available the Youth Camp Guide, a comprehensive guide for camp providers, that covers wearing masks, social distancing, health screenings, and more.

Memo #15 has been sunsetted.  All information previously in this document is available in Memo 6 Message Regarding Child Care and Memo 29 Group Size, Mask Requirements, and Ventilation.