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- American
Academy of Pediatrics Children's Health Topics
This page allows you to search for specific health
topics and gather information from the leader in children's
health and safety. Check out the Child Care Health
Topics page by clicking here.
- Breastfeeding
You can help mothers make the transition from home
to work by supporting their breastfeeding efforts.
Read and hand out this article from the AAP on supporting
breastfeeding as mothers return to work. You can also
order new posters developed by Healthy Child Care
America to encourage parents to continue breastfeeding
through the transition from home to work by clicking
here.
- Challenging
Behavior: Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young
Children with Challenging Behavior
This Center is dedicated to raising the awareness
and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices
and to build an enhanced and more accessible database
to support those practices. Get great information
on working with children with challenging behaviors.
Click on the image above to visit the Center and click
here to visit our page
on challenging behaviors.
- Child
Care Hotlinks
Check out this continuously evolving list of selected
web sites providing health and safety tips and information
applicable to child care settings from the National
Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care.
- Child
Passenger Safety
Children in your care should be safe when traveling
in vehicles. Visit the AAP
child passenger safety health topic page. Educate
yourself and parents on this topic.
- Children
with Special Needs
If you are a child care provider who cares for a child
that has special health needs get this document that
includes 101 standards regarding providing out-of-home
child care for children with special health care needs
from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety
in Child Care.
- Emergency
Preparedness and Response Resources
The following resources may assist you in responding
to the needs of children and families affected by
disasters and emergencies.
- Environmental Safety
Download fact sheets from the Children's Environmental
Health Network about many topics such as asthma, air
pollution, lead poisoning and more.
- Immunization
Information
Get the childhood immunization schedule, up to date
changes in immunization information, and much more
at the AAP Childhood Immunization Support Program.
Visit the CDC
Web site for the adult immunization schedule and
make sure you are up-to-date too.
- Infectious
Diseases
Understand signs and syptoms of many infections and
diseases that occur in child care and when to send
a child home with the Managing
Infectious Diseases in Child Care and Schools: A Quick
Reference Guide. Use the tear-off sheets to share
the AAP recommendations with parents and physicians.
- Injury
Prevention
Read this short presentation in injury prevention
in child care settings and get an overview of what
you need to do to keep the kids in your care safe.
- Nutrition
in Child Care
Find recipes, shopping lists, ideas for keeping vegetarian
children healthy, and more at the Child Care Nutrition
Resource System developed in conjunction with the
USDA.
- Physical
Activity
Get ideas on how children, including infants and toddlers
can be physically active in child care. Listed here
are the National Association for Sport and Physical
Education (NASPE) Guidelines for Physical Activity
in Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers. If you would
like to purchase Active Start: A Statement of Physical
Activity Guidelines for Children Birth to Five Years
click here.
- Preventing
the Flu
Strategies and resources for child care providers
and out-of-home caregivers of children less than 2
years old-- What you need to know this flu season.
- Social/emotional Development
and Challenging Behavior
The Center
for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging
Behavior (CEBP), and the Center
on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning (CSEFEL) have coordinated efforts to
extend the impact of their work on young children’s
social/emotional development and challenging behavior.
The Centers offer varied, valuable, and FREE
resources and information that can be used with children
at home or in the classroom. You will find newsletters,
training modules, research syntheses, information
on training opportunities and much more!
- Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome in Child Care
Nearly 20% of SIDS deaths occur in a child care setting.
Visit the Healthy Child Care America Back to Sleep
Campaign page to learn what you can do!
- Transportation
in Child Care
This presentation is based on Caring for our Children
and the Head Start Performance Standards. The content
targets primarily adults who are in positions to supervise
children, such as teachers, bus monitors, parent volunteers.
Additional training would be needed for drivers. Attached
is the link to details about the training.
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