The Office of Head Start and the Environmental Protection Agency want to improve the indoor air quality for children. The Care For Their Air: Promoting Smoke-free Homes and Cars for Head Start Families has a tip sheet showing Health Managers the different strategies for gathering health information and providing resource information to staff
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Revise health forms (e.g., health
history, health tracking and progress notes) to gather information about
children's exposure to secondhand smoke
Provide staff with secondhand smoke
and asthma information, training and resources around asthma management plans,
risk reduction options and community resources ... Full
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[PDF, 2MB]
Care for Their Air: For Health Managers. Care for Their Air: Promoting Smoke-free Homes for Head Start Families. DHHS/ACF/OHS. 2007. English. [PDF, 2MB].