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Find below one page documents shared for ELRC Health and Safety monthly updates:
2022 updates:
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- April 2022
- May 2022
- June 2022
- July 2022
- August 2022
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2021 updates:
The Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) project at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is now “Go NAP SACC.” Go NAP SACC features an interactive website. Look there for resources for children from birth – 5 years, a focus on breastfeeding and infant feeding, screen time, and outdoor play. Go NAP SACC can be adapted for different child care settings, including family child care homes. The Go NAP SACC website, found at www.gonapsacc.org, gives technical assistance professionals self-assessments and tools. You can follow Go NAP SACC on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GoNAPSACC) and Twitter. Reviewed and reaffirmed 3/2018.
This resource list was prepared from questions Child Care Health Consultants received. The topics align with Model Child Care Health Policies, 5th Ed. When preparing or revising policies, the resources identifed can be helpful to improve health and safety practices. 6/2018
Staying up-to-date with immunizations provides the best protection against disease and is essential to health. Getting vaccinations on time is still important during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is crucial that everyone—children, staff and parents—receive their regularly scheduled vaccines.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and guardians should schedule immunization appointments early. Some health care providers may have delays in scheduling and decreased appointment windows. Health care providers are taking every precaution to ensure the safety of patients, families, and staff. Call your health care provider if you have any questions or concerns about a scheduled well-child visit or immunizations in general. The Pennsylvania Departments of Education, Health, Human Services, and Insurance remind parents to ensure their children’s immunizations are up to date as part of back-to-school preparations.
Early Childhood Education staff should make immunization a priority. Foster an environment of health with:
- Immunization tracking
- Staff education and adult vaccination as needed
- Parent education
Unvaccinated children are at increased risk for disease and can spread disease to others. Babies are at high risk since they are too young to be fully vaccinated. Un- and under-vaccinated people are a threat to children and adults who might not be able to receive certain vaccines due to other health conditions. Children who are not up-to-date with vaccines recommended for their age may be excluded from child care and schools if an outbreak occurs.
For more information to educate staff and parents, visit the following websites -
These excellent state, Head Start and national resources are packed with good ideas about how to foster developmentally-appropriate physical activities for infants and toddlers. Download and explore them to add variety and value to the curriculum for infants and toddlers.
This CDC "flu" website is a good home base for information about influenze. It has handouts, clear explanations about the risks and protections. Reviewed and reaffirmed 3/2018.
This pest control website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) includes an extensive list of pest management resources, with special materials about Integrated Pest Management in child care as well as handouts to download and distribute to parents and staff about the effect of pesticides on children. Reviewed and reaffirmed 3/2018.
Materials and links to reliable informaton about preventing sleep-related deaths of infants are available on the website of the National Institute of Child health and Human Development. For more information go to http://www.nichd.nih.gov/sids/
The federally-funded Healthy Child Care America national resource center at the American Academy of Pediatrics developed a FREE online educational training program for child care providers. To learn more about this program or to take the training for 1 hour of continuing education credit, go to http://www.healthychildcare.org/sids.htm. Reviewed and reaffirmed 3/2018.
Several websites offer trustworthy child health information in Spanish. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a Spanish-language website called HealthyChildren.org en Español. This website has several interactive tools and features. It is accessible from the main Healthy Children website at www.healthychildren.org. The direct access to the Spanish-language content is: http://www.healthychildren.org/Spanish/Paginas/default.aspx.
Many organizations offer suggestions for how to help those who are direct victims or hear about victims of disasters including episodes of interpersonal violence. See the websites of the American Academy of Pediatrics, NAEYC and the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, located at the Yale Child Study Center. Reviewed 3/2018.