The following resources may be helpful to you as you work to keep children healthy by preventing infectious diseases, deciding whether mildly ill children can attend child care, and handwashing and using hand sanitizers.

Questions?
If you have questions about the information shared in this newsletter, send an e-mail to childcare@aap.org In about a month or so, the AAP staff will send you an e-mail with a link to answers to frequently asked questions.

Keeping Children Healthy by Preventing Infectious Diseases

• Healthy Kids, Healthy Care: Handwashing
• Healthy Kids, Healthy Care: Cleaning and Sanitizing
• Additional Information on Childhood Immunization
• Adult Immunization Schedule for Caregivers
• Additional Breastfeeding Information:
  • Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk: AAP Policy Statement
  • Breastfeeding Posters
  • Breastfeeding and Child Care: Fact Sheets for Families (English)( Spanish)
  • United States Breastfeeding Committee 4-page Handout

Handy Information, Fact Sheets, and Posters

• Steps to Preventing Illness: Global Healthy Child Care Website
• Preventing Spread of Infectious Diseases in Child Care: Fact Sheet
• Preventing the Flu: Fact Sheet
• Choosing and Using a Child Care Health Consultant

Deciding Whether Mildly Ill Children Can Attend Child Care

Resources to Help You Care For Children With Common Illnesses

• Healthy Kids, Healthy Care: Sick Children: When should children stay home?
  
  
• Managing Infectious Diseases in Child Care: A Quick Reference Guide
  Managing Infectious Diseases in Child Care and Schools is a quick reference guide that helps out-of-home caregivers prevent, identify, and respond to the most common childhood infectious diseases. Written in non-technical language it is easy to use and share!
  
  This guide will help you decide whether a child should stay in school or go home, and know what diseases may be reportable. It includes handy fact sheets that you can photo-copy for parents and caregivers.
  
  
  • Receive a DISCOUNT for being a Health and Safety E-News reader! You can order copies of the Managing Infectious Diseases in Child Care and Schools manual for $30.00 each (which is a discount of $10 per manual). Simply call the AAP Customer Service Center at 888/227-1770, and mention the "Child Care E-News". Bulk discounts are available for orders of 10 or more. If you would like 10 or more copies, send an email to childcare@aap.org stating your name, mailing address, and how many copies of the book you would like to order. This offer is good through May 31, 2006.
    
    
• Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases
  How do you know what diseases you should report to your Department of Public Health? This web page lists the nationally notifiable infectious diseases, identified by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2006.
  
  
• Fact Sheets on Various Illnesses and Conditions
  
  
• Healthy Kids, Healthy Care: Medication Administration
  
  
• Arranging Back-Up Child Care For Sick Children: Info From Child Care Aware
  
  
• National Association For Sick Child Day Care (NASCD)

Handwashing and Use of Hand Sanitizers

More Materials About Handwashing and Hand Sanitizers

• Handwashing Posters From Global Healthy Child Care (English)
• Handwashing Posters From Global Healthy Child Care (Spanish)
• Hand Hygeine in Child Care Settings: An Article About Hand Sanitizers
• Handwashing for Better Health: Brochure from Idaho
• Activities, Games, Music, and Dowloads from the NSF Scrub Club

Other Health and Safety Resources

• Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs - 2nd Edition
  Caring for Our Children contains all of the health and safety standards and guidelines that are supported by the AAP. This new edition contains updated guidelines on the development and evaluation of the health and safety of children in family and group day care homes and child care centers.
  
  
• Does My State Have a Healthy Child Care Web Site?
  View a list of states that have state Healthy Child Care program sites here.
  
  

• Health/Safety Website for Parents and Caregivers: Healthy Kids, Healthy Care
  Healthy Kids, Healthy Care gives quick access to key information, as well as offers parents and providers the opportunity to look into a topic in detail. For each topic, Healthy Kids, Healthy Care provides specific ideas for parents on how to help and work in partnership with their caregivers to ensure healthy children and safe environments. The website offers caregivers and parents key questions and information and links to additional web resources related to each topic.

  • Handwashing
  • Sick Children: When should children stay home?
  • Cleaning and Sanitizing
  • Medication Administration
    
    
• Health Topics Pages on the AAP Web Site
  This web site from the AAP contains information and resources on a variety of health and safety topics, such as asthma and obesity.
  

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