Frisco Kidz at Play

Under the Jacob Wetterling Act of 1994, local law enforcement in Texas and all over the US are to be informed when a person convicted of sex crimes against a child has any sort of change of address. The purpose of the law is to provide information to communities through a sex offender registration and community notification. The idea is that parents should be able to protect their children more carefully by knowing that a sexual offender lives nearby. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act creates additional registration requirements to Megan’s Law where sexual offenders are organized into different levels of offenders and each tier has different registration requirements that are punishable as a felony. It also creates a national sex offender registry and the information is accessible online. The importance of this law was to create consistency among states in terms of tracking sex offenders.
These laws serve an important purpose in child protection in the United States because parents are made more aware of potentially dangerous people in their neighborhoods.

Safety

CLICK HERE FOR TEXAS REGISTRY

This CDC site below offers a self lookup for immunization type and schedules. It also has a link for adult immunization for childcare providers. Great tool to use for a quick look and understanding of the various immunization required. Enjoy!

http://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/kidstuff/newscheduler_le/

Child Care Providers

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of the new CCL Reporting Form has been delayed until next week. The new release date that has been scheduled is April 5, 2009. Child Care Licensing apologizes for any inconvenience that this has caused. Our IT department is monitoring to determine if any reports were submitted in the last 24 hours and will ensure that anything submitted electronically was processed.

Thank you for your patience.

Department of Family and Protective Services
Child Care Licensing Division

Child Care Providers,

A new enhancement/feature to the Child Care Licensing Public Provider Website will be going live March 29, 2009.

This enhancement is expected to allow child-care providers to interact more easily with the Department of Family and Protective Services via the Internet: Once registered and logged-in to an account, providers will now be able to:

• Submit Serious Incident and Abuse/Neglect Reports for Child Care Licensing

This new technology feature will allow child-care providers to directly report abuse/neglect and serious incidents online that have occurred at child care operations via the current Public Provider Website.

This new online reporting tool will function very similarly to the current Child Protective Services/Adult Protective Services online reporting tool. As a child-care provider with a registered account on the Public Provider Website, your current provider login will allow access to a new link that will open a Child Care Licensing online report. This new report has been modified to more closely match the needs of a child care provider.

As always, Child Care Licensing, in collaboration with child-care providers, strives to improve the health, safety, and well-being of children, and technology is one tool to help us meet that goal. We hope this new reporting option will assist providers in their work and our mission to keep children safe.

Child Care Licensing

Spring is a great time of year where life begins anew. Trees are getting dressed in fresh green leaves, the ground is covered by a blanket of emerging plush grass, flowers are showing off their new bright colors, animals are waking up from a long winter’s nap, and the sun is shining longer and warmer.

But, in order for all these plants and trees to grow, the clouds will need to spill a lot of rain on our dry Earth. This can mean a lot of rainy days. That’s ok because I have a lot of Spring Preschool Activities to keep little ones busy wet, rainy days.

Use these activities as preschool lessons, to keep busy on a rainy day, or in your home child care with your preschoolers and toddlers. Both March and April activities feature a theme, color, number, 2 alphabet letters, shape, science and social studies activities, arts and crafts ideas, reading and language skills activities, imagination play ideas, math games, coordination and movement activities, and ideas to develop social skills.

March Preschool Activities

April Preschool Activities

Don’t forget to spend some time splashing around in the puddles after the rain!

03/02/2009 from Frisco Police Department

On Thursday, February 26, 2009, at approximately 11:00pm, Frisco Police responded to the 13000 Block of Plum Valley, Denton County TX. The officers were responding to a reported attempted child abduction. Upon arrival, officers were told by the three year old victim’s mother that she was packing the car for a family trip and had gone inside for a moment, leaving the three year old alone in the front yard. She stated she heard her daughter screaming and ran outside to see a male subject had her daughter by the wrist and was leading the child away from the house. She stated she chased after them and the man released the child and fled on foot. The area was searched and a police K-9 was called in to assist but the suspect was not located. The child did not sustain any injuries. The suspect is described as a male, approximately 6′ tall, with dark hair, wearing a black shirt, blue jeans, and white shoes.

Frisco Police are asking anyone with information regarding this attempted abduction of a child to call the Frisco Police Department at 972-292-6010.

This offense is still under investigation. No further information will be released at this time.

This information was taken from Frisco Online and was too important not to re-post here.