Learn more about Child Care Health Consultants and their valuable
role through the following resources. (Click on the photos to view
or download individual articles and click on the link in the Source
box to review the referring document.)
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California Works to
Fund Child Care Health Consultants, Advocates
Recognizing the potential of the child care setting as an
access point for needed health and social services, Healthy
Child Care California proposed state legislation to support
quality child care in the face of welfare reform. Learn more
about the proposal in this short article. |
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Child Care Health Consultant
Job Description
Learn more about the role of child care health consultants,
including recommendations for expertise and knowledge.
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Healthy
Child Care Connecticut
This short article describes Healthy Child Care Connecticut's
many activities, including the training of early childhood
educators to support the social and
emotional development of young children and their families.
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Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania:
Consultation, Training, and Technical Assistance
Since 1990, the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy
of Pediatrics has operated the Early Childhood Education Linkage
System
(ECELS) to provide health and safety consultation, training,
and technical assistance to early childhood
education programs statewide. Learn more about this program's
activities, including its efforts to links nurses and physicians
with child care programs to provide health consultations.
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Healthy Child Care West
Virginia
This short article describes the activities of Healthy Child
Care West Virginia, including developing a regional outreach
plan to recruit Child Care Health Consultants and training
more than 100 consultants to be linked to early childhood
programs.
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Know What You Have, Know What You Need
(A Grassroots Approach to Child Care Health Consultation)
Learn about one county's efforts to provide onsite consultation
to child care centers after budget cuts reduced the number of
public health nurses available for consultation. |
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The National Program to Train Child Care
Health Consultants
The National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants
uses a train-the-trainers model to train health and child care
professionals to serve as trainers of Child Care Health Consultants.
Learn more about the training components through this short
article or view
a current training schedule.
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Nurses as Child Care Health Consultants
Learn about the many services that nurses provide as Child Care
Health Consultants and how they can make
a long-term difference in the health of children, families,
and caregivers. |
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Train the Trainers
This short article provides information about Louisiana's
efforts to use child care health consultant training to reach,
teach, and enlist health professionals to serve as leaders
in promoting quality child care.
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