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American Academy of Pediatrics
Health and Safety E-News for Caregivers and Teachers
Resources
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The following resources may be helpful
to you as you work to keep children safe during transportation:
Strategies
for Transporting Children Safely
Car
Safety Seats: A Guide for Parents
This guide helps parents make informed decisions
about car safety seat selection and use. This edition
includes information on booster seats, the LATCH
attachment system, air bags, car seat recalls, installation
tips, built-in seats offered by auto manufacturers,
updated feature comparisons of more than 60 seats,
and a section on commonly asked questions.
AAP
Health Topics Page on Car Safety Seats and Transportation
Safety
This AAP website has an abundance of resources including
brochures, fact sheets, policy statements, and tools
related to car safety seats and transportation safety.
Educating
Others on Child Passenger Safety
BuckleBear
Child care providers can use this friendly, child-like
component to motivate young children about passenger
safety. This site includes books, videos, games, presenter's
kits, puppets, stickers, posters, and more!
This program was featured in an AAP
article in Pediatrics titled "Teaching Car Passenger
Safety to Preschool Children." Click here
for the full document.
Other
Health and Safety Resources
Healthy Kids,
Healthy Care
This site is a parent-friendly tool on health and
safety issues in child care, created by the National
Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care
and Early Education based on Caring for Our Children,
2nd Ed.
For the section on transporting children in child
care, click here.
National Child Passenger Safety Week
Read more about this week in September and download the CPS Week Planner.
Caring
for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance
Standards,
Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care (2002)
Published in 2002, this book contains updated national
health and safety recommendations and guidelines for
children in family-and center-based child care programs.
This publication provides information about transportation
in child care and is essential for any child care
provider. Click here
to download the full publication. Click here
to download only the section on Transporting Children
in Child Care.
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